different between glop vs glom

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?p/

Etymology 1

Variation of glope.

Verb

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

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

glop (countable and uncountable, plural glops)

1. (informal, uncountable) Any gooey substance.
2. (informal, countable) A gooey blob of some substance.
   • 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.

Translations

Verb

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

Derived terms

• gloppy

Catalan

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /??lop/

Noun

glop m (plural glops)

1. gulp, sip

Derived terms

• glopet

Dutch

Etymology

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 *glupp?n (“yawning, being open”), from Pre-Germanic *glub-n-, *glub-, from which also gleuf (“slit, opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?p/
• Hyphenation: glop
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

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

Further reading

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

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) , “gluppa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 181-82

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?m/

Etymology 1

From Scottish English glaum (“to grab or snatch at”).

Verb

glom (third-person singular simple present gloms, present participle glomming, simple past and past participle glommed)

1. (transitive, informal) To steal, to grab.
2. (intransitive) To stare.
3. (intransitive, informal) To attach.
   • 2000, Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth, page 17,

     “The oil pan cracked, the engine seized, and the internal parts glommed together.”

   • 2015, Janet Rae-Dupree, Pat DuPree, Anatomy and Physiology Workbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition, page 217,

     In short, blood comes through the artery (arteriole) and material gloms onto the nephron before twisting through the near (proximal) tubes, looping the loop, twisting through the distant (distal) tubes, and collecting itself at the other end.

Derived terms

• glom on
• glom onto
• glommer

Translations

References

• glom, entry in TheFreeDictionary.com.

Etymology 2

Noun

glom (plural gloms)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for glomerulus.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

glom

1. singular past indicative of glimmen

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gl?m, from Proto-Germanic *gl?maz. Cognate with Norwegian glom (“transparent cuticle or membrane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?m/

Noun

gl?m ?

1. gloom; twilight; darkness

Usage notes

• The exact gender of gl?m is uncertain. It is usually assumed to be a strong masculine noun.

Descendants

• Middle English: *glom
  • English: gloom
  • Scots: glom, gloam