Slurp Definition
slûrp
slurped, slurping, slurps
verb
To drink or eat noisily.
Webster's New World
To eat or drink something noisily.
American Heritage
To make a loud sucking noise.
The mud slurped under our shoes.
Wiktionary
noun
A loud sipping or sucking sound.
Webster's New World
A mouthful of a liquid.
Took a slurp of grape juice.
American Heritage
Origin of Slurp
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From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp"), from Old Dutch *slurpen, from Proto-Germanic *slarpanÄ… (“to sip, slurp"), from Proto-Indo-European *srebÊ°-, *srobÊ°- (“to sip, slurp, gulp"). Cognate with West Frisian slurvje (“to slurp"), German schlürfen (“to sip, slurp"), Swedish slurpa (“to slurp"), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln (“to sip, slurp"), Latin sorbeō (“to suck up, imbibe, absorb").
From Wiktionary
Dutch slurpen
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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