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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A drink made of sweetened milk or cream curdled with wine or spirits.
  2. n. A cold dessert made with sweetened cream thickened with gelatin and beaten with wine, spirits, or fruit juice.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as sillibub.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A drink dating back to the 16th century in various forms, comprising 1 part sherry to 3 parts milk, with nutmeg and optionally brandy. Served topped with clotted cream and sugar, and sprinkled with cinnamon or more nutmeg. (Reference: Australian Colonial Cookery, Richard Daunton-Fear and Penelope Vigar, Rigby, 1977, ISBN 0-7270-0189-6, page 59.)
  2. n. A 19th century dessert derived from the drink, comprising a wineglass of sherry, 1/2 pint of cream, 4 ounces of sugar, grated lemon rind, and sometimes gelatine to set firm. (Reference: ditto Australian Colonial Cookery.)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Same as syllabub.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. spiced hot milk with rum or wine
  2. n. sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “It has always struck me as self-evident that the English word syllabub”

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  • “Oliver Owen Sussex, England READER'S QUERY H.re's one answer to Peter H. Marsden's query about the origin of the word syllabub [VI, 1].”

    Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3

  • “Breeze, and subsequently when removed to the old Kraaken line -- of -- battle ship, both of which were constantly part of blockading squadrons, could be compared to nothing more fitly than a dish of trifle, anciently called syllabub, with a stray plum here and there scattered at the bottom.”

    Tom Cringle's Log

  • “I was being initiated into the mystic sweets of "syllabub," a Southern concoction of which my sober Scotch folks had never heard.”

    St. Cuthbert's

  • “Oh, Diana is so vexed -- her syllabub was a failure, the Assembly is mined and she does not know what she has ever done to be inflicted with such a tiresome brother! ”

    Sanditon

  • “Helen Saberi tops her trifle with a magnificent syllabub, made from a mixture of lemon zest and juice, sugar, white wine and orange flower water and double cream.”

    The Guardian: How to make perfect trifle

  • “At my urging, she spooned a small portion of the syllabub into her mouth.”

    Simon & Schuster: Secrets of the Tudor Court

  • “(You could make individual servings using wine glasses or tumblers as you would a syllabub.)”

    Sir Loin & Friends

  • “True, though syllabub isn't as alcoholic as all that.”

    June recipe: Lemon syllabub

  • “Carla Nayland Historical Fiction: June recipe: Lemon syllabub skip to main”

    June recipe: Lemon syllabub

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hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. drink
  1. sweet
  1. afters
  1. dessert

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  3. pâté
  4. rootbeer
  5. fiery-eyed
  1. burnie
  2. éclair
  3. wild boar
  4. jew's-harp
  5. milkmaid
  1. paragrapher
  2. mail carrier
  3. turismo
  4. he-goat
  5. cannoli
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  2. snuffling
  3. either
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  5. outskirt

reverse dictionary (3)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. sillabub
  1. syllabub
  1. trifle

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  1. food
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  • holly My money is on the Persian, Arabic, & Ottoman Turkish--
    salep/salab (a powdered orchid-tuber starch) + ab ( the Persian for "water")
    See the article on the Middle Eastern drink made from Orchis mascula
    http://hollychase.com/orchid-aphrodisiac/

    holly ( at) hollychase (dot) com
    Feb 11, 2010

  • madmouth also sillibub Oct 28, 2009

  • bilby
    Calico Jam,
    The little Fish swam
    Over the syllabub sea,
    He took off his hat
    To the Sole and the Sprat,
    And the Willeby-wat, -
    But he never came back to me!
    He never came back!
    He never came back!
    He never come back to me!
    - Edward Lear, 'Calico Pie'. Apr 12, 2009

  • slumry I always wonder why one would have a course description for dessert. ;-) Obviously, I have the misfortune to come from a syllabub-less culture. Jul 12, 2007

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