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guly
English
Adjective
guly (comparative more guly, superlative most guly)
- (obsolete) Of or pertaining to gules; red.
Anagrams
- ugly
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gulp
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)
- 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.
- 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".
- 1994, James Charles Collins, Jerry I. Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
- (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)
- 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.
- 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
Derived terms
- gulp down
Translations
Interjection
gulp
- 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)
- 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
- lock
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