Use Of 'Slurp' With Eating?

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Hi

Most dictionaries say that slurp can be used both for eating and drinking. BUT the examples only talk about:

slurp one's coffee, slurp one's tea, etc.

I have not seen a single example of

slurp one's food, slurp one's burger, etc.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=slurped+his+coffee%2C+slurped+his+burger&year_start...

Could you please tell me if this sentence sounds natural to you?

She sat there slurping her dinner.

Or

She slurped her burger disgustingly.

Thanks,

Tom

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Mr. TomCould you please tell me if this sentence sounds natural to you?

I think of slurping with things that are on the wet side. You could never slurp a bowl of potato chips, but you might slurp some tofu tikka masala. You could certainly slurp a bowl of hot Campbell's cream of tomato soup but not the grilled cheese sandwich that goes with it. You can't slurp peanuts, but you might slurp the melted ice cream at the bottom of your sundae cup. Sorry, you made me hungry.

Thanks, Anon.

So which of these words, do you think, would go with a KFC Zinger? Some people really eat audibly, don't' they?

  1. He sat there munching his burger.
  2. He sat there chomping his burger.
  3. He sat there guzzling his burger.
  4. He sat there champing his burger.

Tom

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Mr. TomHe sat there munching his burger.

Good, but it doesn't make a noise very much.

Mr. TomHe sat there chomping his burger.

That's more like it.

Mr. TomHe sat there guzzling his burger.

No. You can only guzzle liquids.

Mr. TomHe sat there champing his burger.

I would bet that fewer than ten percent of Americans know the verb "champ". It's quite rare. You see it in "champing at the bit", but that has changed to "chomping at the bit" among the unwashed, who by force of numbers have dragged us all with them. Even I had to look up "champ" here because I had thought it could not be applied to eating, that is, that you champ your teeth and not your food, or intransitively champ. It turns out you can champ a burger, but nobody will know what you mean.

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