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▪ I. slurp, v.
Also 9 dial. slurrup.
[= Du. slurpen (Norw. slurpa), G. schlurfen, schlürfen: cf. slorp v.]
1. a. trans. To drink or eat greedily or noisily. (See also quot. 1976). Also with down, up.
1648Hexham ii, Zuypen, Slorpen, ofte gulsigh drincken, to Sup, or Slurpe, or to Drinke too much. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 308 Slurrup, to swallow any liquid greedily and with a noise of the lips or in the throat. 1917Dialect Notes IV. 329 Slurp, v.t. and i...to eat liquid food with audible inhalation of air. 1947Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 30 Dec. 15/1 The stars just whirl in.., slurp a cup of coffee and zoom out again. 1952C. Armstrong Black-Eyed Stranger ii. 10 ‘You know—’ Baby slurped food, ‘If you want to live you got to eat.’ 1962R. Lowell Imitations 39 They are slurping their dinners quite happily. 1974P. Cave Mama (new ed.) xiii. 107 The Angels obediently slurped down the remainder of their teas and rose to their feet noisily. 1976Daily Tel. 21 Jan. 15/5 After about seven years of ‘slurping’ (the correct professional word) tea in the tasting room he [sc. a tea-taster]..has prospects of becoming a buyer or blender.
b. transf. and fig.
1968Punch 11 Dec. 858/1 The idiocies of British holiday habits, which tend to waver between ‘slurping up the kilometres’ and getting away from it all amid insanitary souks. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 15 Mrs Bladderby had an even wreckier mother, who..had, moreover, during a recent outing, got her left leg slurped into a dreadful piece of agricultural machinery.
2. intr.
a. To make a sucking noise in drinking or eating.
1917[see sense 1 a above]. 1961B. Crump Hang on a Minute, Mate 108, I had my head inside the can slurping happily away. 1975A. A. Thompson Message from Absolom iv. 24 The Americans ate hungrily. At the other table, the Elberts slurped audibly.
b. transf. and fig.
1958J. Kerouac On Road vii. 155 He..stuck his finger in Marylou's dress, slurped up her knee. 1963[see matière]. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 24 On bed immediately... Fanny swimming with juice, slurps when touched. Marvellous tits, delicious underarms. 1976P. Cave High Flying Birds iv. 51 With a couple of pints of champagne slurping around her insides, she found it increasingly difficult to wrap her tongue round the hard Anglo-Saxon consonants.
Hence ˈslurping ppl. a. and vbl. n.
1960W. Sheed Middle Class Educ. (1961) 31 The slurping roar of the undergraduates. 1976Daily Tel. 21 Jan. 15/5 Mr Ronald Calvert, chief taster for Ridgways,..wonders if women are daunted by a job entailing the ‘slurping’ of 200 to 400 mouthfuls of tea on an average working day. 1980Sunday Express 27 July 16 No one would want them to endanger their striped pants by sitting next to spotty Coca-cola slurping children.
Add: ˈslurper n., one who slurps while eating or drinking.
1974N.Y. Sunday News Mag. 3 Feb. 14/1 The spaghetti slurpers were respectfully silent. 1986Los Angeles Times 13 Mar. iv. 1/2 Urged by mothers tired of cleaning up behind ham-fisted slurpers, the maker of the two-stick Popsicle has decided to phase out their product.
▪ II. slurp, n. and int.|slɜːp|
[f. the vb.]
A. n. A slurping sip or lick; the noise of slurping.
1949H. Hornsby Lonesome Valley xxi. 270 The second cow..slammed her nose against her side and swiped at flies with her tongue. Almost before the slobbery slurp was over with the cow trotted after the other. 1959A. Bailey Making Progress 142 The slurps and gulps of the Danes moodily drinking their beer. 1960I. Cross Backward Sex 140 He..took a huge slurp of tea. 1977D. Clark Gimmel Flask iv. 79 Green took a slurp of his coffee, grimaced at the taste.
B. int. An interjection imitating the sound of a slurp.
1966L. Cohen Beautiful Losers i. 16 It is recorded that she prayed incessantly. Glog, glog, dear God..slurp, flark, glamph, hiccup, jerk. 1967W. H. Canaway Mules of Borgo San Marco iv. 51 She dipped her spoon in the soup, sipped, and said, ‘Perfect!’ ‘Slurp,’ said Major Widdicombe. 1970Private Eye 22 May 16 Leetle Germaine eez at votre service!!! (slurp!). |