syrup
nomverbecourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈsɪ.ɹəp//
- États-Unis//ˈsɪɹ.əp//
- États-Unis//ˈsɝ.əp//
- Irlande//ˈsɪ.ɹəp//
- //ˈsɪ.ɹəp//
Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring.
nom
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Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring.
maple syrup
pancake syrup
peaches in syrup
In Somerset, for example, the local farmers would often boil down the beet juice to create a honey tender, a viscous syrup that sweetened the harvest porridge.
- 2
Any viscous liquid.
cough syrup
rose syrup
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figuréAnything overly sweet or sentimental.
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.
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argotA wig.
Étymologie
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.
verbe
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To convert or process into syrup.
- 2
To add syrup to.
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To sabotage (a vehicle) by pouring syrup into the gas tank.
Formes
- pluriel
- syrups
- passé
- syruped
- participe passé
- syruped
- participe présent
- syruping
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- syrups
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