gleypa
Gleypa is an Icelandic verb meaning to swallow or gulp. It covers the literal act of swallowing food or drink and is also used metaphorically to describe absorbing something fully, such as information, a story, or an emotion. The verb can take a direct object referring to the thing swallowed, or be used with a clause to indicate absorption of information.
The word comes from Old Norse gleypa and is part of the North Germanic language family. In
In literature and everyday speech, gleypa appears in contexts that emphasize immediacy or intensity—such as how
Usage notes include its transitive sense, where a thing being swallowed is specified, and its figurative senses,