Other forms: slurping
To slurp is to drink or eat with a loud sucking noise. Slurping soup, slurping tea, don't slurp.
The word is imitative and needs no explanation to a listener. In British and American table manners slurping is rude, which is why children are told not to; in Japan slurping noodles is expected and is taken as appreciation, which makes this a genuinely useful word to know the cultural weight of. It works as a noun too — a slurp of coffee — and slurping is what a nearly empty straw does at the bottom of a glass.
1verbslurpTo drink or eat noisily, with a sucking sound.
“He slurped his tea and everybody looked at him.”
synonyms: gulp, guzzle
2nounsoundThe sound of drinking noisily.
“There was a slurp from the bottom of the glass.”
slurp is a way of drinking.
Slurp came in from Dutch and sounds like itself. Middle Dutch slurpen meant to sip, from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to sip or gulp that has kept its noise for thousands of years.
Proto-Indo-European
*srebʰ-
Proto-West Germanic
*slurp- — to sip, slurp
Old Dutch
*slurpan
Middle Dutch
slurpen
English, today
slurp
Built 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”). Cognate with West Frisian sloarpe, sloarpje, slurvje (“to slurp”), German schlürfen (“to sip, slurp”), Swedish slurpa (“to slurp”), Norwegian slurpe (“to slurp”). Compare also stq slubberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slurp”), Middle High German sluppern (“to slurp”), Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic slupra (“to slurp”), sürfeln, sürpfeln (“to sip, slurp”), sorbeō. Often treated as imitative of the sound in modern writing.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Everyday Verbs, Sounds & Noises