syrup : Idioms & Phrases

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chocolate syrup

  • noun sauce made with unsweetened chocolate or cocoa and sugar and water
    chocolate sauce.
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corn syrup

  • noun syrup prepared from corn
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golden syrup

  • noun a pale cane syrup
    treacle.
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maple syrup

  • noun made by concentrating sap from sugar maples
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maple syrup urine disease

  • noun an inherited disorder of metabolism in which the urine has a odor characteristic of maple syrup; if untreated it can lead to mental retardation and death in early childhood
    branched chain ketoaciduria.
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sirup syrup

Sir"up, Syr"up noun
Etymology
F. sirop (cf. It. siroppo, Sp. jarabe, jarope, LL. siruppus, syrupus), fr. Ar. sharab a drink, wine, coffee, sirup. Cf. Sherbet.
Definitions
  1. A thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.
  2. A thick and viscid saccharine solution of superior quality (as sugarhouse sirup or molasses, maple sirup); specifically, in pharmacy and often in cookery, a saturated solution of sugar and water (simple sirup), or such a solution flavored or medicated.
    Lucent sirups tinct with cinnamon. Keats.
Webster 1913

soothing syrup

  • noun medicine in the form of a syrup that has a calming effect
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sugar syrup

  • noun sugar and water and sometimes corn syrup boiled together; used as sweetening especially in drinks
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