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Blort vs Blorp - What's the difference?

blort | blorp |

As nouns the difference between blort and blorp

is that blort is a snort of liquid from the mouth out through the nose; as in response to something unexpected and/or funny while blorp is a sound suggesting a splash of or into a volume of semiliquid material.

As a verb blorp is

to be deposited with a blorp.

blort

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A snort of liquid from the mouth out through the nose; as in response to something unexpected and/or funny
  • (computing) A metasyntactic variable similar to foo and bar
    • English onomatopoeias

    blorp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sound suggesting a splash of or into a volume of semiliquid material.
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year=1941 , date=March , title=Voomp Clank Bomp: Name Your Noise and the Movies' Sound Makers Will Give It To You , journal=Popular Science , page=106 , passage="Lesser artists might have been satisfied with, say, a "blorp ." Or with a "squoph." Not Disney's noise trust. They said it must be "voomp." Their only trouble was that "voomp" wasn't among the hundreds of crazy sounds they have catalogued."}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2007 , author=Judith Merkle Riley , title=The Water Devil: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel , isbn=0307237893 , publisher=Three Rivers Press , page=141 , passage="The center of the pond made a sound like, 'blorp', ' blorp ,' and began once again to boil and bubble as if it had never ceased."}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , author=Donn Cortez , title=CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Killing Jar , isbn=1439153701 , publisher=Simon and Schuster , page=223 , passage="He and Catherine stood at the foot of Mount Pele. It was glowing a brilliant crimson from the cone, the wax-based lava releasing the occasional blorp of heated air."}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be deposited with a blorp.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1997 , author=Michael Flynn , title=Firestar , isbn=0812530063 , publisher=Tor Science Fiction , page=330 , passage="She would sooner have touched what blorped out of a stuck drainpipe."}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2005 , author=Steve Almond , title=Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America , isbn=0156032937 , publisher=Harvest Books , page=134 , passage="Down below, this batter was blorping out onto pans covered with waxed paper."}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , author=Katharine Weber , title=True Confections , isbn=0307395863 , publisher=Random House, Inc. , page=44 , passage="If I could clone myself, this was one of the times I would have worked the phones, to make the most of the Blessed Chocolate Virgin, and if I had felt more comfortable in my de facto role as head of the business at that time, I might have tried to get going with a fast production of a Limited-Edition Zip's Blessed Chocolate Virgin, using the Little Sammies production line, with a molded figure replicating that holy object sent by God to Zip's Candies, here on Earth, in New Haven, Connecticut, at the edge of the Quinnipiac River, to blorp out of that striping nozzle onto the Tigermelt belt."}}