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1. www.oed.com › dictionary › slurp_nslurp, n. & int. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford ...

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   Where does the word slurp come from? Earliest known use. 1940s ... Entry history for slurp, n. & int. slurp, n. & int. was first published in 1986; not yet revised.

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   Jan 17, 2023 · slurp. (v.) "drink greedily or noisily," 1640s, from Dutch slurpen, perhaps of imitative origin (compare German schlürfen). Intransitive sense by 1917. Related: Slurped; slurping. The noun is attested by 1949, from the verb. also from 1640s.

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   Sep 22, 2024 · slurp (third-person singular simple present slurps, present participle slurping, simple past and past participle slurped) (transitive) To eat or drink noisily. They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti. December 2015, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them”, in National Geographic ‎ [1 ...

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   All you need to know about "SLURP" in one place: definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.

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   Slurp definition: To eat or drink noisily. Origin of Slurp From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp" ), from Old Dutch *slurpen, from Proto-Germanic *slarpanÄ…

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   Slurp definition: to ingest (food or drink) with loud sucking noises. See examples of SLURP used in a sentence.

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   Where does the word slurp come from?

   • From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slurp- (“to sip, slurp”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ- (“to sip, slurp, gulp”).

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   What does slurping mean?

   • (transitive) To eat or drink noisily. They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti. December 2015, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them”, in National Geographic , archived from the original on 13 December 2015:

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   Is Slurp a German word?

   • Compare also Saterland Frisian slubberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slurp”), Middle High German sluppern (“to slurp”), Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic slupra (“to slurp”), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln (“to sip, slurp”), Latin sorbeō (“to suck up, imbibe, absorb”). Often treated as onomatopoeic in modern writing.

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   When did Slurpee get its name?

   • But things really took off when, in 1965, 7-Eleven licensed the machine, but called the drink by a different name to make it unique for their stores. The name Slurpee was coined by Bob Stanford, a 7-Eleven ad agency director, when he described the sound made while sipping it through a straw.

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   What does it mean to Slurp a liquid?

   • When you drink a liquid noisily, making a slurping sound, you are slurping the liquid. A slurp is the noise made during this process.

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   What does a vulture slurp mean?

   • As the crowd cackles and caws, a white-backed vulture snakes its head deep into the wildebeest’s eye socket and hurriedly slurps, with grooved tongue, whatever it can before being ripped from its place at the table. (intransitive) To make a loud sucking noise. The mud slurped under our shoes. slurp (plural slurps)

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8. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › slurpSlurp Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   The meaning of SLURP is to make a sucking noise while eating or drinking. How to use slurp in a sentence.