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▪ I. gulping, vbl. n.|ˈgʌlpɪŋ| [f. gulp v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb gulp; swallowing in gulps; † guzzling, gormandizing (obs.); the noise made in swallowing large quantities; choking.
c1394P. Pl. Crede 92 Glotony is her God wiþ g[l]oppyng [MS. B. golping] of drynk. 1530Palsgr. 573/2 Take hede of this glouton what a goulpynge he maketh as he drinketh. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 306 Hee spake of a..spirituall manner of eating his bodie, and drinking his bloud..and not of a swallowing or gulping in of the same at our mouth. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 113/2 He was..much giuen to excessiue gulping and surfetting. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. ix. §6 (1734) 213 Symptoms exceedingly troublesome in Vapours,..to wit, Choaking and Gulping. 1880I. L. Bird Japan I. 276 It is proper to show appreciation of a repast by noisy gulpings, and much gurgling and drawing-in of breath. ▪ II. gulping, ppl. a.|ˈgʌlpɪŋ| [f. gulp v. + -ing2.] That gulps; characterized by gulping.
1865Baring-Gould Werewolves vii. 88 Strange gulping bursts of fiendlike merriment from the strange boy. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. ii. i. 375 To swallow in a gulping manner. Hence ˈgulpingly adv., with a gulp.
1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. vii. 69 He'll swallow any thing, and as many Sacraments as (he swallows) Oaths gulpingly. Ibid. viii. 75 That so much Nonsence..should..be so gulpingly swallowed by an unthinking World. |