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glop.

opening, hole, crevice

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɣlɔp/
  1. opening, hole, crevice

    Northern · dialectal · neuter
  2. alley, narrow passage, narrow street

    dialectal · neuter
  3. open space, clearing

    Northern · dialectal · neuter
Where this word comes from

Related to West Frisian gloppe (“alley”), Old Norse gloppa (“mountain gorge”), Norwegian Bokmål 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-, to which gleuf (“slit, opening”) might also belong.

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