glop

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡlɒp/ 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. Synonyms: gloop, goop Coordinate term: slop (informal, countable) A gooey blob of some substance. Synonym: glob 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Got out a jack knife & scraped glops of wax off the floor. ===== Derived terms ===== gloppy hoppy glop ===== Translations ===== ==== 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. Near-synonyms: slap, slop (transitive, archaic or slang) To swallow greedily. Synonym: gulp == Catalan == === Etymology === Onomatopoeic. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 == Dutch == === Etymology === Related to West Frisian gloppe (“alley”), Old Norse gloppa (“mountain gorge”), Norwegian Bokmål 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-, to which gleuf (“slit, opening”) might also belong. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɣlɔp/ 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 ==== Related terms ==== === References === Kroonen, Guus (2013), “gluppa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 181-82 === Further reading === van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “glop”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute