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▪ I. gulp, n.1|gʌlp|
Also 6–7 gulpe, 7–8 gulph, 8 Sc. gowp.
[f. gulp v. Cf. Du. gulp stream or flush of water, large draught of liquid.]
1. The action or an act of gulping or swallowing in large portions.
1568Hist. Jacob & Esau ii. iii, I at the ladell got a goulpe or a licke. 1625–6Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1540 They give the accused to drinke saying that if hee bee innocent he shall drink it off at one gulp without any stay. 1807Med. Jrnl. XVII. 345 He succeeded in getting down, at a single gulp, the small quantity of liquid he had taken into his mouth. 1837Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 64 Dissolving it in a tumbler of water and swallowing it all at one gulp. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 8 [The robin] eats with a relishing gulp not inferior to Dr. Johnson's.
b. trans. and fig.
1610Beaum. & Fl. Scornf. Lady i. i, He hath suck'd in ten thousand pounds worth of my land more than he paid for, at a gulp. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa i. xxii. 147 All those joys which she [the soul] took, came to her but by sups, and gulps. 1726De Foe Hist. Devil (1840) i. vi. 72 Hell received them all at a gulp. 1758A. Murphy Upholsterer ii. (1763) 27 Quid. What, and will the People believe that now? Pamph. Believe it!—believe any thing,—no Swallow like a true-born Englishman's..they give a Gulp,—and down it goes. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 171 The sweetness of the verse enables the fancy, by a slight gulp, to swallow without solution the problem of being in two places at the same time.
c. Capacity for gulping; ‘swallow’. rare—1.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. i. vi, Here too is a Swallower of Formulas; of still wider gulp than Mirabeau.
d. An effort to swallow; the noise caused by this; a choke.
1873Holland A. Bonnic. v. 83 He gave a convulsive gulp as if his heart had risen to his throat and he were struggling to keep it down. 1887R. Buchanan Heir of Linne i, The smith, with a great gulp in his throat, threw a handful of coppers into the singer's hat.
2. As much as is swallowed at a gulp; a mouthful.
1611Cotgr., Goulette de vin, a gulpe, mouthfull, or small quantitie of wine. 1637G. Daniel Genius this Isle 171 Goblets of blood he Qvaffes; and everie Gulpe Steam's in his cankred throte. 1700Dryden Fables, Ceyx & Alcyone 222 As oft as he can catch a gulp of air And peep above the seas, he names the fair. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 112 He was fain to break his fast with a little conserve, and four gulps of cold water. 1862Tyndall Mountaineer. vi. 55 He had..a gulp of wine, which mightily refreshed him. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. vii, ‘I was down at the water-side’, said Venus,..taking another gulp of tea.
▪ II. † gulp, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
[? ad. Sp. golpe blow.]
? Impact, shock.
1598Barret Theor. Warres v. i. 124 To resist and beare of the blow and gulpe of the artillery.
▪ III. gulp, v.|gʌlp|
Forms: 5 gulpe, golpe, 6 goulpe, 9 Sc. gowp, 6– gulp.
[Echoic; cf. Du. gulpen to swallow, guzzle, to issue in streams; also globbe, gloff, glop v.2, gloup; also MSw. glup throat, glupsk voracious, Sw. dial. glapa to gulp down.]
1. trans. To swallow in large draughts or morsels hastily or with greediness. Chiefly with down, † formerly also in, up.
14..Langland's P. Pl. A. v. 191 (MSS. T. and U.) Y-gulpid, y-golped [see gloup v.]. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 119 Charybdis..after a litle tyme, casteth vp again whatsoeuer it goulped in before. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. clxvii. 1036 Although hee powre in neuer so much wyne, yet is he neuer filled but doeth still gulp it vp without ende of drinking. 1735Somerville Chase i. 182 With greedy Joy Gulp down the flying Wave. 1784Cowper Task v. 269 Inflated and astrut with self conceit He gulps the windy diet. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 282 The convulsive spasms about the throat obliged her to gulp what she swallowed. 1842Thackeray Fitz-Boodle's Conf., Ottilia i, Several tumblers of punch..I had gulped down without saying a word. 1843Le Fevre Life Trav. Phys. II. ii. v. 220 The Russians..rise from table..before the last mouthful is well gulped down. 1890Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 256 The big fishes gulping the little ones.
b. absol.
1714Gay Trivia ii. 191, I..See them puff off the froth, and gulp amain, While with dry tongue I lick my lips in vain. 1740Garrick Lying Valet i. Wks. 1798 I. 34 Nothing, while honour sticks in your throat: do gulp, master, and down with it. 1787F. Burney Diary Nov., I gulped as well as I could at dinner. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. xxxii. 267 She could only gulp at it, and swallow it.
2. transf. and fig. Chiefly to gulp down:
a. To swallow up, devour, take in. (Also with up.)
a1625Beaum. & Fl. Wit without M. i. ii, Lance. Has he devour'd you too? Fran. Has gulped me downe, Lance. Lance. Left you no meanes to study. Fran. Not a farthing: Dispatcht my poore annuity, I thanke him. a1754Fielding Voy. Lisbon Wks. 1784 X. 259 The old man..glibly gulped down the whole narrative. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) I. 318 So many brooks and springs..collected from every quarter, to be gulped up in one great navigable canal. 1816Scott Antiq. v, The worthy knight fairly gulped down the oaths. 1899Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 6/1 Gulping down any scheme of vain promise.
b. To keep in or ‘stifle’ by a process analogous to swallowing. (Also with in, back.)
1644Quarles Barnabas & B. i, Gulp downe care in frolique cups of liberall Wine. 1778F. Burney Diary Sept., [As] reproaches and expostulations..can do no good, I gulp them down. c1793Ld. Bulkely in G. Rose's Diaries (1860) I. 131, I gulped in the grievance. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 193, I felt my heart swell in my throat; but I gulped it back to its place. 1869Trollope He Knew xxviii. (1878) 157 [She] had gulped down her sobs and was resolved to be firm.
3. intr. To gasp or choke when or as when drinking large draughts of liquid.
1530Palsgr. 573/2, I goulpe, as drinke dothe in ones throte that drinketh hastely, je crocque..and je engoule. 1790Cowper Let. 11 May, He is ever gulping, as if swallowing somewhat that would hardly pass. 1840Marryat Olla Podr. 304 She gulped when she looked at it, and..cried herself to sleep. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Bagman's Dog, Poor Blogg went on ducking and bobbing, Sneezing out the salt water, and gulping and sobbing. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXXIV. 140/2 Tom gasps apologies, opens his mouth to comment, but only gulps. |