glop
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Variation of glope.
Verb[edit]
glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)
Etymology 2[edit]
1940-45, of expressive origin. Compare goop, gulp.
Noun[edit]
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.
- (informal, countable) A gooey blob of some substance.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
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Verb[edit]
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.”
- (transitive, archaic) To swallow greedily.
Catalan[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
glop m (plural glops)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “glop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “gluppa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 181-82
Further reading[edit]
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “glop”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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