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?
ax
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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.
...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)
he has a bit too much of the drink takenI 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.
Actually a more technical term applies: aspirate but that certainly is too technical for normal conversation.
I don't know, TEd -- that sounds to me like inhaling a beverage. Which I admit I've done, but never intentionally!
Is this the same *root if you use "exasperate" to describe what would normally be referred to as "raspberries"?
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.
Betty Craig, Don't Slurp Your Soup: A Basic Guide to Business Etiquette, New Brighton, Minnesota: Brighton Publication, 1996.
There's a semantic connection between inhaling (intake of air), smoking, and drinking. Cf. Mandarin he1 'to drink', Spanish tomar 'to take, smoke'.
The old advisory song, in its early versions, speaks of drinking tobacco where the modern lyrics speak of smoking:
http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiINDNWEED;ttINDNWEED.htmlScroll down to the note at the bottom.
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 would have thought that sup would sum it up quite well.
that sup would sum
hmm. sup to me is to eat, ala supper...
Obviously we won't be going drinking together if you ever come over here, et.
Have you never heard of the song "Dicey Reilly"?
Poor aul Dicey Reilly she has taken to the sup
Poor aul Dicey Reilly she will never give it up
It's off each morning to the pub
And then she's in for another little drop
Ah, the heart of the rule is Dicey Reilly
Poor aul Dicey Reilly she has taken to the sup
Poor aul Dicey Reilly she will never give it up
It's off each morning to the pub
And then she's in for another little drop
Ah, the heart of the rule is Dicey Reilly
She walks along Fitzgibbon Street with an independent air
And then it's down by Summerhill and as the people stare
She says it's nearly half past one and it's time I had another little one
Ah, the heart of the rule is Dicey Reilly
Poor aul Dicey Reilly she has taken to the sup
Poor aul Dicey Reilly she will never give it up
It's off each morning to the pub
And then she's in for another little drop
Ah, the heart of the rule is Dicey Reilly
Long years ago when men were men and fancied May of Long
Or lovely Becky Cooper or Maggie's Mary Wong
One woman put them all to shame, just one was worthy of the name
And the name of that dame was Dicey Reilly
Poor aul Dicey Reilly she has taken to the sup
Poor aul Dicey Reilly she will never give it up
It's off each morning to the pub
And then she's in for another little drop
Ah, the heart of the rule is Dicey Reilly
But time went catching up on her like many pretty ones
It's after you along the street before you're out the door
Their balance vague, their looks all fade, but out of all that great brigade
Still the heart of the rule is Dicey Reilly
Poor aul Dicey Reilly she has taken to the sup
Poor aul Dicey Reilly she will never give it up
It's off each morning to the pub
And then she's in for another little drop
Ah, the heart of the rule is Dicey Reilly
Poor aul Dicey Reilly she has taken to the sup
Poor aul Dicey Reilly she will never give it up
It's off each morning to the pub
And then she's in for another little drop
Ah, the heart of the rule is Dicey Reilly
Obviously we won't be going drinking together if you ever come over here, etsaddest thing I've heard all day, Rube...
and no, I hadn't heard that delightful little ditty.
Of course I meant that we wouldn't be going drinking until you learned the seconf meaning of that word...
Ted mentions it in his thesaurus of slurping noises above.
Ted mentions ityeah, I missed it as I quaffed that list.
and I'm relieved to hear we'll be able to have that drink. though I'm sure I won't be able to match you...
You can solve the whole problem the old fashioned way - by pouring a bit of the tea into a saucer then sipping from the saucer. (some dexterity required!) As my magnanimous Irish Grandfather would have said, "Have a bit of my tea, lass, it's all saucered and blowed."
Right, try to drink from a saucer quietly.