gulper
gulper — noun
1. a person or animal that swallows food, drink, or air in large, hurried gulps
a person or animal that swallows food, drink, or air in large, hurried gulps
Brandon is such a gulper at meals — his plate is clean before anyone else has even started.
pattern: be + such a gulper (informal description of a person)
Ayesha teased her brother for being a gulper — he finished his soup in four noisy swallows.
pattern: teased for being a gulper (informal, mild criticism)
Shirin's Labrador is a messy gulper who always scatters half his kibble across the floor.
When we pulled the plug, the sink became a gulper, draining the water in quick, noisy swallows.
Lucas surfaced from the pool a gulper of air, his mouth wide open between strokes.
用法筆記
Typically used informally to describe someone who eats or drinks too quickly, often with mild teasing or criticism.
常見錯誤
2. a deep-sea fish with an eel-like body and a huge mouth that stretches open to sw
a deep-sea fish with an eel-like body and a huge mouth that stretches open to swallow prey bigger than itself
Diving robots filmed a gulper two kilometres deep, its giant jaws wide open in the pitch-black water.
typical deep-sea habitat description with depth measurement
A gulper can swallow a squid twice its size because its stomach stretches like a balloon.
can + verb: ability to swallow unusually large prey
A gulper opened its enormous mouth and swallowed a squid nearly twice its length in one motion.
The gulper's tail tip glows with a faint light to lure curious fish close enough to be eaten whole.
Fishermen once hauled a gulper from the deep, its huge mouth still stretched around a half-swallowed fish.
- gulper eel
the common English name for members of this fish family; used interchangeably
- pelican eel
refers specifically to Eurypharynx pelecanoides, one well-known species of gulper
用法筆記
Often called 'gulper eel' or 'pelican eel' in popular science writing. Distinguish from sense 1, which describes a person or thing that gulps.