gulp
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡʌlp/
gulp (plural gulps)
- The usual amount#Noun|amount swallow#Verb|swallowed.
- Synonyms: slug
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.
- The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear.
- 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Chapter 17
- Little Stanislovas was also trembling, and all but too frightened to speak. "They — they sent me to tell you — " he said, with a gulp.
- 1994, James Charles Collins, Jerry I. Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
- Indeed, the envisioned future should produce a bit of "the gulp factor" […] , there should be an almost audible "gulp".
- 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Chapter 17
- German: schlucken
- Spanish: glup
- Spanish: glup
gulp (gulps, present participle gulping; past and past participle gulped)
- To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:drink
- He does not swallow, but he gulps it down.
- The old man […] glibly gulped down the whole narrative.
- To react nervously by swallowing.
- 1930, P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress, 2004, page 198
- The man eyed Percy with a chilly eye. "Well," he said, "What's troublin you?" Percy gulped. The man's mere appearance was a sedative. "Er-nothing! […]"
- 2003, Carl Deuker, High Heat, page 140
- I'd always been nervous-excited; this was nervous-terrified. When I finished puking, I sat down gulping air for a while, trying to pull myself together.
- 2006, Nancy Anne Nicholson, Thin White Female in No Acute Distress: A Memoir, page 187
- My heart was beating madly and I was gulping nervous energy.
- 1930, P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress, 2004, page 198
- German: schlingen, verschlingen
- Russian: глота́ть
- Spanish: tragar, zampar
- Russian: сгла́тывать
- An indication of (the sound#Noun|sound of) an involuntary fear#Noun|fear reaction in the form of a swallowing#Noun|swallowing motion.
- Synonyms: ulp
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