SYRUP
What does "SYRUP" mean?
A thick, sweet liquid made by dissolving sugar in water or boiling down plant sap.
Meanings
- A thick sticky sweet liquid, used as a topping, sweetener, or medicine base. He drowned his pancakes in maple syrup.
- Excessively sentimental or sweet speech or tone. Her thank-you note dripped with syrup. figurative
Did you know?
- It takes roughly 40 litres of maple sap, boiled down, to make a single litre of maple syrup, because raw sap is only about two percent sugar.
Word origin
From Old French 'sirop', from Medieval Latin 'siropus', ultimately from Arabic 'sharab' (a drink, beverage) - the same source that gives us 'sherbet' and 'shrub'.
Remember it
SYRUP has no real vowel until the U - it's sticky and slow to get going, just like the stuff itself.
A little poem
Slow gold off the spoon-
forty buckets of cold sap
boiled down to one breath.
haiku
Wordplay
- My friend's compliments are pure syrup - sweet, sticky, and I can never tell how much sugar is actually in them.
What it teaches
Sweetness worth keeping is what's left after most of the water has boiled away.
Quick facts
What does SYRUP mean?
A thick, sweet liquid made by dissolving sugar in water or boiling down plant sap.
Is SYRUP a valid word?
Yes — SYRUP is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SYRUP?
SYRUP has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does SYRUP come from?
From Old French 'sirop', from Medieval Latin 'siropus', ultimately from Arabic 'sharab' (a drink, beverage) - the same source that gives us 'sherbet' and 'shrub'.
What can SYRUP teach us?
Sweetness worth keeping is what's left after most of the water has boiled away.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.