1.0Glossaryhttps://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossaryGlossaryhttps://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/author/adminglossary/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="ZhmlLPDq2q"><a href="https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/slurp/">Slurp</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/slurp/embed/#?secret=ZhmlLPDq2q" width="600" height="338" title="“Slurp” — Glossary" data-secret="ZhmlLPDq2q" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> For some reason, perhaps not too hard to guess, English has far more words to describe noisy gluttonous eating than dainty well-mannered eating. Of these dozen or so gluttonous words, slurp, first recorded in the mid seventeenth century, is the best known and the least offensive; you can safely chide your spouse for slurping his soup, and you can even refresh yourself afterwards with a Slurpee, a well-known drink of flavoured ice-crystals. In contrast, observe the reaction you elicit if you chide your spouse for globbing his soup, or try selling a drink named Globbee. The ugly glob and its equally ugly cousin, glop, both mean to swallow greedily; these two words are among the oldest of the "gluttony words," having appeared in the mid fourteenth century. Glob and glop, like many gluttony words, developed from onomatopoeia: they sound like the action they describe. Ramp, gudge, yaffle, slummock—these four verbs also arose as imitations of loud chewing and swallowing sounds; if you say them out loud in succession, someone is sure to ask you what you are eating. Two of these words, gudge and yaffle, originated in the mid seventeenth century, a time when political upheaval prompted a laissez-faire attitude toward chewing with a closed mouth; ramp arose about a century before this, and slummock about a century after. Other "gluttony" words developed not from onomatopoeia but from older words. Guttle, for example, which was first recorded in the mid seventeenth century, derives from a fusion of gut and guzzle. In contrast, a classical source lies behind lurcate; that word, which means to eat ravenously, arose from the Latin lurcare, meaning to eat like a glutton.