syrup
Meaning
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- Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring.
- Any viscous liquid.
- Anything overly sweet or sentimental.
- (slang) A wig.
Synonyms
spunk
water of life
goose grease
liquid medicine
molassed
spuff
bee feeding
melted butter
sugar syrup
thick liquid
sugar liquor
syrupus
hot fish yoghurt
whore's milk
nut custard
Zinzanbrook
joombye
tatty water
French-fried ice-cream
tail-juice
Aphrodite's Evostick
population paste
father-stuff
Valentines Day porridge
pugwash
love butter
banana yoghurt
Cupid's toothpaste
liquid hairdressing
manfat
man cake batter
Gloy
man-fat
tadpole yoghurt
prick-juice
spunck
doll spit
love nectar
man oil
white blow
gonad glue
man mayonnaise
cock porridge
herbalz
baby juice
hocky
white wee-wee
jessom
spla water
manmuck
hot juice
gentleman's relish
hot milk
jizzle
little tadpoles
Frequency
Hyphenated as
syr‧up
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsɪɹ.əp/
Etymology
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.
Cognate with French
sirop
Cognate with Spanish
jarabe
Cognate with Portuguese
xarope
Cognate with Dutch
siroop
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