Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A soft soggy mixture, as of food: cafeterias serving nondescript glop.
- n. Slang Something, such as a piece of writing, that is judged to be worthless.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To stare.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
- n. any gummy shapeless matter; usually unpleasant
Etymologies
- 1940-45, of expressive origin. Compare goop, gulp. (Wiktionary)
- Imitative of the sound of mushy food being dished out. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The line came in response to research which showed that women liked moisturizing body washes, but not the "glop" and "grease" associated with them.”
“As my (top loading) washer fills with water I dump in a half cup of the "glop" and wait for it to dissolve before adding the clothes but the glop never dissolves!!”
“Once this glop was strained in cheese cloth, it did form a sort of dry cakey crumble remotely goat cheese-like.”
“Two and a half hours of retch-worthy glop, set to the greeting-card lyrics of Iris Rainer Dart ("It's never been easy / It's always been rough / I give her my life / But it's never enough") and the perfectly serviceable music of Mike Stoller (who is better known as the other half of Leiber & Stoller) and Artie Butler.”
“Come on, howzabout some REAL news and not this mindless space-taking glop!”
“The nasty gooey LeSueur-mushy glop was more than I could handle.”
“Every time I make this dish I splatter myself with glop.”
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“I felt some soggy bits of my peanut butter and jelly sandwich fall from above and smack right onto my head with repeating glop sounds as they landed on my head one, two, three.”
“The leather holster under my arm had started to feel like a giant mole that had been exposed to too much sunlight and needed a glop of aloe rubbed into it.”
“To the olive-sized Australopithecine brain, hundreds of stabbings was a fair price for a fistful of sugary glop.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘glop’.
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 242 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like.
(dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)
gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 102 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Ecolectic
Words from my idiolect (my own special words), and my ecolect (my household's own special words)
fuckle, wuffy, small, medium, large, guzzunder, under-buddy, bake, foodity-food, stewp, glop, gups and 7 more...
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niblet's Words
plonk, blootered, wombat, squash, fiend, slather, goon, slickery, balloon, baboon, spork, glop and 9 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for glop.
yarb You're welcome. Mar 23, 2012
ruzuzu Lovely, yarb. Thank you! Mar 23, 2012
yarb Close-cropped men in brown denim
tended a formal flower garden
behind which, a house with barred windows.
The nearest gardener glopped
but seemed not to see us, holding
his rake upside-down by the prongs.
- Peter Reading, Tom o' Bedlam's Beauties, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981
Note: "Stare, gaze in wonder or alarm" (SOED). Jun 28, 2008
angharad One-pot meal. Starch, protein, vegetable, possibly sauce, all stirred up together. Unlike foodity-food, does not imply that ingredients were cooked together in the same serving pot. Veggies could've been steamed or fried alongside, and stirred in at the end. Does imply stove-top cooking only. Dec 15, 2006