glop
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡlɒp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒp
Etymology 1
Variation of glope.
Verb
glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)
- (dialectal or archaic) To stare in amazement.
Etymology 2
1940-45, of expressive origin. Compare goop, gulp.
Noun
glop (countable and uncountable, plural glops)
- (informal, uncountable) Any gooey substance.
- 2012, Kathryn Lasky, Chasing Orion, page 308:
- He inserted the needle, and in about thirty seconds the most disgusting greenish glop started to drop into the bowl.
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- (informal, countable) A gooey blob of some substance.
- 2015, Kristen L. Middleton, W. J. May, Suzy Turner, Darlings of Darkness
- Kylarai studied me as I picked a glop of mascara from one lash.
- 2015, Kristen L. Middleton, W. J. May, Suzy Turner, Darlings of Darkness
Derived terms
- gloppy
Translations
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Verb
glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)
- (transitive, informal) To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.
- 2012, Courtney Milan, The Duchess War:
- He unscrewed the top from the pot, dipped the stick in, and clumsily glopped the white mess onto the handbill Minnie was holding. “You are an untidy paster.”
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- (transitive, archaic) To swallow greedily.
Catalan
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈɡlop/
Noun
glop m (plural glops)
- gulp, sip
- un glop de cafè ― a sip of coffee
Derived terms
- glopejar
- glopet
Further reading
- “glop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
Etymology
Related to West Frisian gloppe (“alley”), Old Norse gloppa (“mountain gorge”), Norwegian glop (“opening, hole”), Icelandic glopa, Faroese gloppa (“ajar”); per Kroonen, all from Proto-Germanic *gluppa (“open space”), a derivative of *gluppōn (“yawning, being open”), from Pre-Germanic *glub-n-, *glub-, from which also gleuf (“slit, opening”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɣlɔp/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: glop
- Rhymes: -ɔp
Noun
glop n (plural gloppen, diminutive glopje n)
- (Northern, dialectal) opening, hole, crevice
- (Holland, dialectal) alley, narrow passage, narrow street
- (Northern, dialectal) open space, clearing
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “gluppa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 181-82
Further reading
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “glop”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute