From Middle English glopen, probably from Old Norse glápa, from Proto-Germanic *glupaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlub(ʰ)-. Cognate with Icelandic glápa, Dutch gluipen, Low German glupen, Scots gloup. See also gloppen.
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