slurp

«slurp» in Mova's school dictionary: To drink or eat noisily by sucking in air with the food… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (slurp, slurps, slurped, slurping); noun (a slurp, slurps)

meaning for a pupil

1) To drink or eat noisily by sucking in air with the food or drink. tree →

2) (noun) A noisy sucking sound or a mouthful drunk this way. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday manners, «don't slurp your soup». In stories it is a funny sound word. Phrases: slurp your soup, a slurp of tea.

examples

• Don't slurp your soup! tree →
• The dog slurped water from its bowl. tree →
• He took a big slurp of milkshake. tree →
• We slurped noodles at the restaurant. tree →
• Slurping is polite in some countries. tree →
• The baby slurped the last of her juice. tree →

note

Regular verb: slurped. A sound word (onomatopoeia). Manners differ: in some cultures slurping noodles is polite.

In the corpora

• Soup is eaten quietly, sipping from the side of the spoon, without slurping.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «slurp» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.