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▪ I. gollop, v. dial. and colloq.|ˈgɒləp|
Also gollup.
[Perhaps an extended form of gulp v., influenced by gobble v.1 Cf. next.]
trans. To swallow greedily or hastily. Freq. with down or up. Also fig. Hence ˈgolloping vbl. n.
1823Egan Grose's Dict. Vulg. T., Gollup up, to drink down quickly. 1851T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants 42 Gollop (southern), to swallow greedily. 1854A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants Words 283 Gollop it down. 1927Brit. Weekly 14 July 326/4 The Ancient Order of Frothblowers. The 1st Qualification for Membership is that he or she ‘should gollop their beer with a zest’, three gulps to the pint and 14 to the gallon. 1928Wodehouse in Strand Mag. July 10/1 He was aware that the golluping noises [of two boys eating oysters] at his side had ceased. Ibid. Dec. 532/1 ‘Don't gollup your food, Harold,’ said the second burglar. 1930A. Kennedy Orra Boughs i. 4 His conclusion, his attempt at constructive criticism, had been almost an afterthought. ‘All things considered’ (Ah, how he had golloped Chesterton) ‘Burns does have a claim to immortality.’ 1941L. A. G. Strong Bay 14 ‘In sips, now.’.. ‘Don't go gollop it down.’ 1960Spectator 21 Oct. 595 The licentious Allied soldiery golloped them up. 1969C. Geeson Northumberland & Durham Word Bk. 96 Gollop. In general dialectal use in Scotland and England. To gulp one's food. ‘Dinna gollop your broth like that!’ 1970D. M. Davin Not Here, Not Now iii. vii. 210 Mind if I have one before Martin gollops the lot?
▪ II. gollop, n. dial. and colloq.|ˈgɒləp|
[Cf. prec.]
A greedy or hasty gulp (in quot. 1912, a gulping sound). Also fig.
1912W. Deeping Sincerity v. 43 Wolfe uncorked it, and turned it upside down. The water went ‘gollop, gollop’, and splashed the stones at Mr. Turrell's feet. 1933F. E. Baume Half Caste 76 They washed down the lot with great gollops of tea. 1933J. Masefield Bird of Dawning 152 We've all had a good gollop of fortune, being alive now. 1941L. A. G. Strong Bay 14 If I took it all in a gollop, I never had to give it another thought. 1946B. Fergusson Wild Green Earth i. ii. 45 The mule rolled over and over down the hillside until he lay, breathing great gollops of air, helpless until his load was taken off him. |