syrup
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English sirup, from Old French sirop, from Medieval Latin siruppus, syrupus, from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup”), from شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”). Doublet of sirop. Related to sorbet, sherbet, sharbat. Compare French sirop, Italian siroppo, sciroppo, Spanish jarabe, jarope, Portuguese xarope, and Dutch siroop and stroop.
The first known use of the spelling sirup was in the 14th century.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪɹ.əp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪɹ.əp/, /ˈsɝ.əp/
Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: syr‧up
- Rhymes: -ɪɹəp, -ɜɹəp
Noun edit
syrup (countable and uncountable, plural syrups)
- Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring.
- maple syrup
- pancake syrup
- peaches in syrup
- 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXX, page 98:
- With jellies soother than the creamy curd, / And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; [...]
- (by extension) Any viscous liquid.
- cough syrup
- rose syrup (rosewater)
- (figurative) Anything overly sweet or sentimental.
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 266:
- Eventually, he or his staunch public tired of his easy-listening syrup, so Price recorded gospel for the Myrrh label before semi-retiring to his Golden Cross Ranch in Texas.
- (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig.
Alternative forms edit
Derived terms edit
- bar syrup
- bucket of syrup
- Canadian as maple syrup
- coffee syrup
- corn syrup
- cough syrup
- glucose-fructose syrup
- glucose syrup
- golden syrup
- high fructose corn syrup
- high-fructose corn syrup
- high-fructose maize syrup
- maize syrup
- maple syrup
- maple syrup urine disease
- palm syrup
- pancake syrup
- refiner's syrup
- simple syrup
- sizzurp
- snail syrup
- sorghum syrup
- syrup of figs
- syrup of ipecac
- syrupy
Descendants edit
Translations edit
thick liquid that has a high sugar content
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Verb edit
syrup (third-person singular simple present syrups, present participle syruping, simple past and past participle syruped)
- (transitive) To convert or process into syrup.
- (transitive) To add syrup to.
- (transitive) To sabotage (a vehicle) by pouring syrup into the gas tank.