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单词 gulp
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gulpn.1

Brit. /ɡʌlp/, U.S. /ɡəlp/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s gulpe, 1600s–1700s gulph, 1700s Scottish gowp.
Etymology: < gulp v. Compare Dutch gulp stream or flush of water, large draught of liquid.
1.
a. The action or an act of gulping or swallowing in large portions.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > [noun] > swallowing > in gulps
gulping1530
gulp1568
1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau ii. iii. sig. C.ivv I at the ladell got a goulpe or a licke.
1625–6 S. Purchas Pilgrimes 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.
1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 345 He succeeded in getting down, at a single gulp, the small quantity of liquid he had taken into his mouth.
1837 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 64 Dissolving it in a tumbler of water and swallowing it all at one gulp.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 8 [The robin] eats with a relishing gulp not inferior to Dr. Johnson's.
b. transferred and figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > taking in > in large amounts
gulp1616
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie i. sig. B1 He hath suckt in ten thousand pownds worth of my Land, more then hee paid for at a gulpe.
1671 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa i. xxii. 147 All those joys which she [sc. the soul] took, came to her but by sups, and gulps.
1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. vi. 79 Hell..received them all at a gulp.
1758 A. Murphy Upholsterer ii. 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.
1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 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.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > taking in > in large amounts > capacity for
gulp1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vi. 64 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.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [noun] > shortness of breath > choking or asphyxiation
chokingc1440
prefocation1684
stifling1711
gulping1733
frost-bitten asphyxy1822
stifle1823
choke1839
chokiness1844
gulp1873
1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle v. 83 He gave a convulsive gulp as if his heart had risen to his throat and he were struggling to keep it down.
1887 R. 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.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills part of body > mouth
mouthful?c1450
gulp1611
gobful1819
willie-waught1826
pussful1922
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Goulette de vin, a gulpe, mouthfull, or small quantitie of wine.
1637 G. Daniel Genius of Isle 171 Goblets of blood he Qvaffes; and everie Gulpe Steam's in his cankred throte.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Fables 369 As oft as he can catch a gulp of Air, And peep above the Seas, he names the Fair.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. xix. 318 He was fain to break his fast with a little conserve, and four gulps of cold water.
1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 vi. 55 He had..a gulp of wine, which mightily refreshed him.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. vii. 63 ‘I was down at the water-side,’ said Venus, taking another gulp of tea.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

gulpn.2

Etymology: ? < Spanish golpe blow.
Obsolete. rare.
? Impact, shock.
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the world > movement > impact > [noun] > forcible, heavy, or violent
piltinga1250
racec1330
squatc1350
dasha1375
percussion?a1425
peise1490
poise1490
dashing1580
gulp1598
jolt1599
feeze1603
slam1622
arietation1625
pash1677
pulse1677
jounce1784
smash1808
smashing1821
dush1827
birr1830
dunch1831
whop1895
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 124 To resist and beare of the blow and gulpe of the artillery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

gulpv.

Brit. /ɡʌlp/, U.S. /ɡəlp/
Forms: Middle English gulpe, golpe, 1500s goulpe, 1800s Scottish gowp, 1500s– gulp.
Etymology: Echoic; compare Dutch gulpen to swallow, guzzle, to issue in streams; also globbe v., gloff n., glop v.2, gloup v.; also Middle Swedish glup throat, glupsk voracious, Swedish dialect glapa to gulp down.
1.
a. transitive. To swallow in large draughts or morsels hastily or with greediness. Chiefly with down, †formerly also in, up.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > drink at a gulp
gulp1542
gulf1650
swipe1829
slam1982
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously
forswallowOE
gulch?c1225
afretea1350
moucha1350
glop1362
gloup1362
forglut1393
worrya1400
globbec1400
forsling1481
slonk1481
franch1519
gull1530
to eat up1535
to swallow up1535
engorge1541
gulp1542
ramp1542
slosh1548
raven1557
slop1575
yolp1579
devour1586
to throw oneself on1592
paunch1599
tire1599
glut1600
batten1604
frample1606
gobbet1607
to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616
to make a (also one's) meal of1622
gorge1631
demolish1639
gourmanda1657
guttle1685
to gawp up1728
nyam1790
gamp1805
slummock1808
annihilate1815
gollop1823
punish1825
engulf1829
hog1836
scoff1846
brosier1850
to pack away1855
wolf1861
locust1868
wallop1892
guts1934
murder1935
woof1943
pelicana1953
pig1979
14.. Langland's P. Pl. A. v. 191 (MSS. T. and U.) Y-gulpid, y-golped [see gloup v.].
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 119 Charybdis..after a litle tyme, casteth vp again whatsoeuer it goulped in before.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie 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.
1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 182 With greedy Joy Gulp down the flying Wave.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 269 Inflated and astrut with self conceit He gulps the windy diet.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 353 The convulsive spasms about the throat obliged her to gulp what she swallowed.
1842 W. M. Thackeray Confessions of G. Fitz-Boodle: Ottilia i Several tumblers of punch..I had gulped down without saying a word.
1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician II. ii. v. 220 The Russians..rise from table..before the last mouthful is well gulped down.
1890 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 256 The big fishes gulping the little ones.
b. absol.
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1714 J. Gay Trivia ii. 191 I..See them puff off the froth, and gulp amain, While with dry tongue I lick my lips in vain.
1740 D. Garrick Lying Valet i, in Wks. (1798) I. 34 Nothing, while honour sticks in your throat: do gulp, master, and down with it.
1787 F. Burney Diary 27 Nov. (1842) III. 461 I gulped as well as I could at dinner.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxii. 267 She could only gulp at it, and swallow it.
2. transferred and figurative. Chiefly to gulp down.
a. To swallow up, devour, take in. (Also with up.)
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > take in > in large amounts
to gulp downa1625
a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) i. sig. C1 Lance. Has he devoured 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.
a1754 H. Fielding Voy. Lisbon in Wks. (1784) X. 259 The old man..glibly gulped down the whole narrative.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 318 So many brooks and springs..collected from every quarter, to be gulped up in one great navigable canal.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. v. 100 The worthy knight fairly gulped down the oaths.
1899 Westm. 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devour, engulf, or consume (of fire, water, etc.)
supeOE
eatc950
fretc1000
forthnimc1175
forfret?c1225
to-fret?c1225
swallowa1340
devourc1374
upsoup1382
consumea1398
bisweligha1400
founderc1400
absorb1490
to swallow up1531
upsupa1547
incinerate1555
upswallow1591
fire1592
absume1596
abyss1596
worm1604
depredate1626
to gulp downa1644
whelm1667
a1644 F. Quarles Judgem. & Mercy (1646) 2 Gulp downe care in frolique cups of liberall Wine.
1778 F. Burney Let. Sept. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 158 [As] reproaches and expostulations..can do no good, I gulp them down.
c1793 Ld. Bulkely in G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 131 I gulped in the grievance.
1840 W. Irving Ralph Ringwood in Knickerbocker Mag. Aug. 156 I felt my heart swell in my throat; but I gulped it back to its place.
1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xxviii. 220 [She] had gulped down her sobs and was resolved to be firm.
3. intransitive. To gasp or choke when or as when drinking large draughts of liquid.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (intransitive)] > become short of breath > choke
choke?a1400
worrya1500
smotherc1528
gulp1530
stifle1594
to stop one's nose, nostrils1697
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 573/2 I goulpe, as drinke dothe in ones throte that drinketh hastely, je crocque..and je engoule.
1790 W. Cowper Let. 11 May (1982) III. 378 He is ever gulping as if swallowing somewhat that would hardly pass.
1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida III. 256 She..gulped when she looked at it, and then cried herself to sleep.
1840 R. H. Barham Bagman's Dog in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 324 Poor Blogg went on ducking and bobbing, Sneezing out the salt water, and gulping and sobbing.
1894 Outing 24 140/2 Tom gasps apologies, opens his mouth to comment, but only gulps.
4. transitive. To cause or compel (one) to gulp.
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1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 377 It is bad enough for a sick man..to be thus gulped.
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