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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slurp/#m1)

2) (noun) A noisy sucking sound or a mouthful drunk this way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slurp/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slurp/#x1)
- The dog slurped water from its bowl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slurp/#x2)
- He took a big slurp of milkshake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slurp/#x3)
- We slurped noodles at the restaurant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slurp/#x4)
- Slurping is polite in some countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slurp/#x5)
- The baby slurped the last of her juice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slurp/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slurp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slurp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.