different between gulp vs ingurgitate

English

Etymology

From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, probably of imitative origin.

Related to West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English gealpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lp/

Noun

gulp (plural gulps)

1. The usual amount swallowed.

   Synonym: 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.

2. The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear.
   • 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".

3. (rare, computing) An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.

Translations

Verb

gulp (third-person singular simple present gulps, present participle gulping, simple past and past participle gulped)

1. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drink

   • 1782, William Cowper, Table Talk

     He does not swallow, but he gulps it down.

2. 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.

Derived terms

• gulp down

Translations

Interjection

gulp

1. An indication of (the sound of) an involuntary fear reaction in the form of a swallowing motion.

   Synonym: ulp

Further reading

• swallowing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “gulp”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• plug

Dutch

Etymology

Of uncertain origin; possibly from glop (“hole, opening”); also compare gleuf (“slot, slit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lp/
• Hyphenation: gulp
• Rhymes: -?lp

Noun

gulp f (plural gulpen, diminutive gulpje n)

1. fly; opening in a man's pants to facilitate relieving himself

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gulp

Further reading

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010) , “gulp2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Turkmen

Noun

gulp

1. lock

English

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin ingurgit?re, from in- + gurges (“whirlpool”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n????d??te?t/

Verb

ingurgitate (third-person singular simple present ingurgitates, present participle ingurgitating, simple past and past participle ingurgitated)

1. To swallow greedily or in large amounts.

   Synonyms: gulp, gorge, guzzle

   • , II.ii.1.2:

     Nothing pesters the body and mind sooner than to be still fed, to eat and ingurgitate beyond all measure, as many do.

2. (transitive) To swallow up, as in a gulf.
   • 1622, Fotherby, Atheom.

     If a man do but once set his appetite upon it [pleasure], let him ingurgitate himself never so deep into it, yet shall he never be able to fill his desire with it.

Italian

Verb

ingurgitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of ingurgitare
2. second-person plural imperative of ingurgitare
3. feminine plural of ingurgitato

Latin

Verb

ingurgit?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ingurgit?