vurpとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /vɜː(ɹ)p/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)p

名詞

vurp (複数形 vurps)

1. (slang) A belch where a small amount of stomach acid is brought up into the mouth, creating a taste similar to that of vomit.
   • 1999 January 20, User455673, “Re: Jets set new post season record!”, in alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots, Usenet‎^[1]:

     BTW, dry toast is the rule for a major case of the "vurps " . <g>

   • 2000 August 18, SilverBullet, “Al Gore: I Am My Own Man...”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater, Usenet‎^[2]:

     Gore can't even change the inflection in his voice without sounding like someone trying to talk and hold a vurp back at the same time.

   • 2001 April 14, Mike Kim, “Re: 3 way component sets”, in rec.audio.car, Usenet‎^[3]:

     well i don't know. for instance, i'd rather smell a burp rather than a fart, unless, it happened to be a very bad burp (または even worse, a vurp).

   • 2012 October 29, Wreck-It Ralph, spoken by Vanellope von Schweetz and Wreck-It Ralph (Sarah Silverman かつ John C. Reilly):

     Vannellope: And now... Now I think I'm going to puke, actually. I mean, I think I might puke. You know, like a "vurp."
     Ralph: A what?
     Vannellope: Vomit and a burp together, and you can taste it, and it's like just like rising up... Oh, this is so exciting!

動詞

vurp (三人称単数 現在形 vurps, 現在分詞 vurping, 過去形および過去分詞形 vurped)

1. (slang) To experience a combination of burping and vomiting.
   • 2005, Nancy N. Rue, ’Nama Beach High Book 4: Totally Unfair, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 32:

     “If Laurie gets two sundaes, then I get two,” Bonnie said. […] ¶ “You’ll vurp,” I said. ¶ “What’s vurp?” Her brows knotted suspiciously. ¶ “It’s when you burp, only you almost vomit.” ¶ […] ¶ “It’s a Celeste-ism,” I said.

   • 2007, Melissa Walker, Violet on the Runway, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 26:

     She heads into the kitchen to pour a glass of the all-American drink [milk] for our all-American athlete. The scene is enough to make me want to vurp. How did I end up the lone monster in a family that belongs on a porcelain Christmas plate?

   • 2009, Don Calame, Swim the Fly, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 39:

     I took some meat loaf and mashed potatoes even though I wasn’t hungry. […] I’m regretting it now as I ride my mountain bike, vurping onions and garlic and hard-boiled egg.

参照

• “vurp” in Xin-An Lu and David W. Graf Jr., A Concise Collection of College Students’ Slang, iUniverse (2004), page 106.