Meanings
present singular third person slurps · participle present slurping · participle past slurped · past slurped · alternative shlurp · alternative slorp
- transitiveTo eat or drink noisily.
They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti.
1 more example
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.
December 2015, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2015 - intransitiveTo make a loud sucking noise.
The mud slurped under our shoes.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*srebʰ-
- Proto-West Germanic*slurp-“to sip, slurp”
- Old Dutch*slurpan
- Middle Dutchslurpen
- Englishslurp
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”). Cognate with West Frisian sloarpe, sloarpje, slurvje (“to slurp”), German schlürfen (“to sip, slurp”), Swedish slurpa (“to slurp”), Norwegian slurpe (“to slurp”). 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.
More words from Middle Dutch, Old Dutch, Proto-West Germanic
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ῥοφέω
- ῥοφέω (rhophéō)eat or drink noisily
Bulgarian сърбам, сърбане
- сърбам (sărbam)eat or drink noisily
- сърбане (sărbane)a loud sucking noise
Czech srkat
- srkateat or drink noisily
Danish slubre
- slubreeat or drink noisily
Dutch slurpen, slorpen
- slurpeneat or drink noisily
- slorpeneat or drink noisily
- slurpa loud sucking noise
Finnish ryystää, hörps
- ryystääeat or drink noisily
- hörpsa loud sucking noise
German schlürfen
- schlürfeneat or drink noisily
Hindi सुड़पना, सुड़कना
- सुड़पना (suṛapnā)eat or drink noisily
- सुड़कना (suṛaknā)eat or drink noisily
Hungarian szürcsöl, szörcsög
- szürcsöleat or drink noisily
- szörcsögmake a loud sucking noise
- szortyogmake a loud sucking noise
Icelandic sötra
- sötraeat or drink noisily
Italian tracannare
- tracannareeat or drink noisily
Māori pākorakora
- pākorakoraa loud sucking noise
Norwegian Bokmål slurpe
- slurpeeat or drink noisily
Polish siorbać
- siorbaćeat or drink noisily
Portuguese sorver
- sorvereat or drink noisily
Russian сёрбать, хлеба́ть
- сёрбать (sjórbatʹ)eat or drink noisily
- хлеба́ть (xlebátʹ)eat or drink noisily
- хлю́пать (xljúpatʹ)eat or drink noisily
Slovak chlípať, sŕkať
- chlípaťeat or drink noisily
- sŕkaťeat or drink noisily
Spanish sorber
- sorbereat or drink noisily
Swedish sörpla, slurpa
- sörplaeat or drink noisily
- slurpaeat or drink noisily
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with slurp
All rhymes →Cite this entry
slurp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slurp
“slurp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slurp. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slurp,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slurp.
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