glop

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɒp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Variation of glope.

glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)

1. (dialectal or archaic) To stare in amazement.

1940-45, of expressive origin. Compare goop, gulp.

glop (countable and uncountable, plural glops)

1. (informal, uncountable) Any gooey substance.

   Synonyms: gloop, goop

   Coordinate term: slop

   • 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.

2. (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.

   • 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.

• gloppy

glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)

1. (transitive, informal) To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.

   Near-synonyms: slap, slop

   • 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.”

2. (transitive, archaic or slang) To swallow greedily.

   Synonym: gulp

   • 2014, Michelle Mankin, Captivating Bridge:

     […] drinking something. Probably that nasty spinach concoction she glopped down every morning.

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡlop]

glop m (plural glops)

1. gulp, sip

   un glop de cafè ― a sip of coffee

• glopejar
• glopet

• “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

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɣlɔp/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: glop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

glop n (plural gloppen, diminutive glopje n)

1. (Northern, dialectal) opening, hole, crevice
2. (Holland, dialectal) alley, narrow passage, narrow street
3. (Northern, dialectal) open space, clearing

• 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

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “glop”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute