# glop
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡlɒp/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒp

### Etymology 1

Variation of glope.

#### Verb

glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)
* (dialectal or archaic) To stare in amazement.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

glop (countable and uncountable, plural glops)
* (informal, uncountable) Any gooey substance.
    Synonyms: gloop, goop
    Coordinate term: slop
** 2012, Kathryn Lasky, Chasing Orion, page 308:He inserted the needle, and in about thirty seconds the most disgusting greenish glop started to drop into the bowl.
* (informal, countable) A gooey blob of some substance.
    Synonym: glob
** 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
    Got out a jack knife & scraped glops of wax off the floor.
** 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.

##### Derived terms

* gloppy

##### Translations
#### Verb

glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)
* (transitive, informal) To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.
    Near-synonyms: slap, slop
** 2012, Courtney Milan, The Duchess War:He unscrewed the top from the pot, dipped the stick in, and clumsily glopped the white mess onto the handbill Minnie was holding. “You are an untidy paster.”
* (transitive, archaic or slang) To swallow greedily.
    Synonym: gulp
** 2014, Michelle Mankin, Captivating Bridge:[…] drinking something. Probably that nasty spinach concoction she glopped down every morning.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡlop]

### Noun

glop m (plural glops)
* gulp, sip
    un glop de cafè ― a sip of coffee

#### Derived terms

* glopejar
* glopet

### Further reading

* “glop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Related to West Frisian gloppe (“alley”), Old Norse gloppa (“mountain gorge”), Norwegian Bokmål glop (“opening, hole”), Icelandic glopa, Faroese gloppa (“ajar”); per Kroonen, all from Proto-Germanic *gluppa (“open space”), a derivative of *gluppōn (“yawning, being open”), from Pre-Germanic *glub-n-, *glub-, to which gleuf (“slit, opening”) might also belong.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɣlɔp/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: glop
* Rhymes: -ɔp

### Noun

glop n (plural gloppen, diminutive glopje n)
* (Northern, dialectal) opening, hole, crevice
* (Holland, dialectal) alley, narrow passage, narrow street
* (Northern, dialectal) open space, clearing

#### Related terms

* gleuf (uncertain relation)
* gulp

### References

* Guus Kroonen (2013) “gluppa”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 181-82

### Further reading

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