different between glop vs glomp

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

Etymology

Probably onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mp

Verb

glomp (third-person singular simple present glomps, present participle glomping, simple past and past participle glomped)

1. (slang, chiefly fandom slang, transitive) to embrace enthusiastically; to pounce on and hug, often from a running start.
   • 1994, John Walter Biles, Kunou's Excellent Adventure [FanFic], rec.arts.anime.stories, [1]

     You glomp onto her, and she punts you through the wall....but you don't care!

   • 2000, KATHYNEW, Re: Ranma Fanfiction Cliches (draft), rec.arts.anime.fandom, [2]

     Nope. Every instance he's near her he tries to glomp her. If she shows affection to Ranma, he attacks Ranma.

   • 2002, cb, Re: Dead end jobs, alt.support.shyness, [3]

     Girls would ask for people to glomp them and dish them out, even to complete strangers. The most recent one I was at, there were several girls wearing huge signs that read "GLOMP ME!", one of them being a former date I had that turned out really badly.

   • 2002, Soffia Parry, Re: ATTN: STRYDER167, alt.fan.dragonball, [4]

     I like your name, for some reason it makes me want to glomp you

   • 2006, starcade, With spoilers abounding, Kaleido Star Grand Finale discussion..., rec.arts.anime.misc, [5]

     Can I glomp Sora's and Rosetta's voice actresses?? Please??

Translations

Noun

glomp (plural glomps)

1. (slang, chiefly fandom slang) An embrace of this kind.
   • 1996 Mar 23, RpM-acct2/5, Surreal World pt 3 [fanfic][Ranma/UY/Nuku/Tenchi/SM/A!MG/KOR], rec.arts.anime.stories, [6]

     Ryoko zoomed in for the glomp when suddenly she got glomped herself.

Synonyms

• pouncehug