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Is glop a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word glop is a Scrabble US word. The word glop is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word glop is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

GLOP,GOLP,

3-letter words (3 found)

LOG,LOP,POL,

2-letter words (4 found)

GO,LO,OP,PO,

You can make 9 words from glop according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of glop

glop lgop golp oglp logp olgp glpo lgpo gplo pglo lpgo plgo gopl ogpl gpol pgol opgl pogl lopg olpg lpog plog oplg polg

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Definitions and meaning of glop

glop

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlɒp/
  • Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

Variation of glope.

Verb

glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)

  1. (dialectal or archaic) To stare in amazement.

Etymology 2

1940-45, of expressive origin. Compare goop, gulp.

Noun

glop (countable and uncountable, plural glops)

  1. (informal, uncountable) Any gooey substance.
  2. (informal, countable) A gooey blob of some substance.
    • 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
      Got out a jack knife & scraped glops of wax off the floor.
Derived terms
  • gloppy
Translations

Verb

glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)

  1. (transitive, informal) To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To swallow greedily.

Catalan

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈɡlop]

Noun

glop m (plural glops)

  1. gulp, sip
    un glop de cafè ― a sip of coffee

Derived terms

  • glopejar
  • glopet

Further reading

  • “glop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

Related to West Frisian gloppe (“alley”), Old Norse gloppa (“mountain gorge”), Norwegian glop (“opening, hole”), Icelandic glopa, Faroese gloppa (“ajar”); per Kroonen, all from Proto-Germanic *gluppa (“open space”), a derivative of *gluppōn (“yawning, being open”), from Pre-Germanic *glub-n-, *glub-, from which also gleuf (“slit, opening”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣlɔp/
  • Hyphenation: glop
  • Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

glop n (plural gloppen, diminutive glopje n)

  1. (Northern, dialectal) opening, hole, crevice
  2. (Holland, dialectal) alley, narrow passage, narrow street
  3. (Northern, dialectal) open space, clearing

References

  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “gluppa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 181-82

Further reading

  • van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “glop”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Source: wiktionary.org