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#135462 11/22/04 04:02 AM
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what is the word when you drink hot tea, and you draw the tea in while also letting some air in to protect your mouth from being burned? I thought I use the word SLURP, but it seems wrong... can anyone enlighten?

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#135463 11/22/04 07:52 AM
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Slurp works very well. We use a variety of words to describe drinking: sip, quaff, taste, savor,absorb, belt, booze, consume, dissipate, down, drain, gargle, gulp, guzzle, imbibe, indulge, inhale, irrigate, lap, liquor up, nip, partake of, put away slake, slosh, slurp, soak up, sop, sponge, suck, sup, swallow, swig, swill, tank up, thirst, tipple, toast, toss off, wash down, wet whistle

These all came from an online thesaurus and do not begin to complete a list of words and phrases we find in English for consuming alcohol. We had a thread about this two or three years ago you could look up. One of my favorite, which I don't remember being discussed, was describing an inebriated person he has a bit too much of the drink taken, supposedly an Irishism though I never heard it during the time I was in Ireland.



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...draw the tea in while also letting some air in to protect your mouth from being burned?

Slurp has always represented *that action accompanied by a sound... similar to a vacume cleaner picking up water.

I'm going with "sip". (extended pinky optional)


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he has a bit too much of the drink taken

I like it!! It's anastrophic!

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I agree, "slurp" connotes the noise as much as the action. But I can't think of a better word, antonxie.


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Actually a more technical term applies: aspirate but that certainly is too technical for normal conversation.



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I don't know, TEd -- that sounds to me like inhaling a beverage. Which I admit I've done, but never intentionally!


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Is this the same *root if you use "exasperate" to describe what would normally be referred to as "raspberries"?


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well, in bahasa indonesia, I will use the word 'HIRUP', as in 'menghirup teh', notice the similar sound with slurp. However, the meaning of word Hirup in indonesia is to inhale. I might go with inhaling tea, but inhale does not have similar onomatopeic effect.

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To me, inhale in this context simply means that you are drinking it rapidly. Example would be after noting that the full teacup you had just set before the drinker moments before was now empty; "What did you, just inhale it?"

Slurp is your word if what you want to do is emphasize the noise made while drinking.

Inhale implies drinking quickly; nothing is said about the sound made. Slurp implies making a loud noise in drinking; nothing is said about how quickly it is drunk.


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Betty Craig, Don't Slurp Your Soup: A Basic Guide to Business Etiquette, New Brighton, Minnesota: Brighton Publication, 1996.







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