Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A drink made of sweetened milk or cream curdled with wine or spirits.
- n. A cold dessert made with sweetened cream thickened with gelatin and beaten with wine, spirits, or fruit juice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as sillibub.
Wiktionary
- 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.)
- 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
- n. Same as syllabub.
WordNet 3.0
- n. spiced hot milk with rum or wine
- n. sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor
Etymologies
- Origin unknown.
Examples
“It has always struck me as self-evident that the English word syllabub”
“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].”
“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.”
“I was being initiated into the mystic sweets of "syllabub," a Southern concoction of which my sober Scotch folks had never heard.”
“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! ”
“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.”
“At my urging, she spooned a small portion of the syllabub into her mouth.”
“(You could make individual servings using wine glasses or tumblers as you would a syllabub.)”
“True, though syllabub isn't as alcoholic as all that.”
“Carla Nayland Historical Fiction: June recipe: Lemon syllabub skip to main”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘syllabub’.
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Sugar
sugar, sugar cube, sugar of lead, The Sugarcubes, table sugar, sucrose, sugar cane, sugar beet, brown sugar, sugar alcohol, sugar of milk, sugar orchard and 123 more...
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word heroin
Words that are a rush both to look at and to say.
smack, incarnadine, expiate, cutty sark, travesty, dona nobis pacem, syllabub, incandescent, firmament, zanzibar, fiasco, turbulent and 8 more...
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words-for-apocalipstick
all your words are belong to me.
sybaritic, cacography, scatterbrain, extravaganza, fenestra, kaleidophone, machination, mudpuppy, saturnalia, Bacchanalia, ersatz, fictile and 57 more...
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kerniving, scandinavia, confectionary, mangrove, bejewelled, flesh, crystalline, gazelle, pantaloons, bluebird, caribou, albatross and 88 more...
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British Food
Traditional British dishes have some of the most unique and interesting names. Here's a list to collect all those wonderfully-named foods and delectable words to describe how delicious British cuis...
spotted dick, black pudding, crumpets, yorkshire pudding, mushy peas, bubble and squeak, scotch egg, fish and chips, clotted cream, full english, bangers and mash, sunday roast and 63 more...
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