cough-syrupy

English

Etymology

From cough syrup +‎ -y.

Adjective

cough-syrupy (comparative more cough-syrupy, superlative most cough-syrupy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of cough syrup.
   • 1994, Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, New York, N.Y.: Grosset/Putnam, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 34:

     Cayenne hated the cough-syrupy taste of liqueur, but because she was nervous, she drank it.

   • 2002, Michael Crow, Red Rain (a Luther Ewing thriller), New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 89:

     The sweet reek and disgusting, cough-syrupy taste of the local plum brandy, raffia or something.

   • 2060, Elizabeth Bougerol, New England’s Favorite Seafood Shacks: Eating Up the Coast from Connecticut to Maine, Woodstock, Vt.: The Countryman Press, →ISBN, page 184:

     With its catchy name, addictive cough-syrupy taste (gentian root and wintergreen drove the flavor), chipper orange-and-blue logo, and kicky slogan and jingle ("Make Mine a Moxie!"), it became the nation's most popular beverage in the early 20th century.