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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A thick, sweet, sticky liquid, consisting of a sugar base, natural or artificial flavorings, and water.
  2. n. The juice of a fruit or plant boiled with sugar until thick and sticky.
  3. n. A concentrated solution of sugar in water, often used as a vehicle for medicine.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In medicine, a solution of sugar in water, made according to an officinal formula, whether simple, flavored, or medicated with some special therapeutic or compound.
  2. n. The uncrystallizable fluid finally separated from crystallized sugar in the refining process, either by the draining of sugar in loaves, or by being forcibly ejected by the centrifugal apparatus in preparing moist sugar. This is the ordinary or “golden syrup” of grocers; but in the sugar-manufacture the term syrup is applied to all strong saccharine solutions which contain sugar in a condition capable of being crystallized out, the ultimate uncrystallizable fluid being distinguished as molasses or treacle.
  3. To sweeten with syrup; cover or mix with a syrup.
  4. n. In cookery, a boiled solution of sugar and water in which fruits are often cooked.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any thick liquid that is added to or poured over food as a flavouring and has a high sugar content. Also any viscous liquid.
  2. n. A wig.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Same as sirup, sirupy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a thick sweet sticky liquid

Etymologies

  1. Old French sirop, from Arabic شراب (šarāb, "beverage"), from شرب (šáriba, "to drink"). Related to sorbet, sherbet. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English sirup, from Old French sirop, from Medieval Latin siropus, from Arabic šarāb, from šariba, to drink; see śrb in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • sionnach Here in my local whatnot, the preferred pronunciation of whatnot is whaughtnought, while a majority of people say ot, when they really ought to say ought.

    Go figger!

    Meanwhile, the states of Montana and Wyoming continue to be sparsely populated. Apr 11, 2008

  • asativum The problem is that the maps just count responses. So a ton of respondents, it appears, come from the Northeast; ergo, every pronunciation appears concentrated in the Northeast.

    What they ought to map, by color, is the relative proportion of responses received so far from a given region (state, city, whatnot).

    So: Points for neat research idea, marked down for information-poor illustration of results. Apr 11, 2008

  • Prolagus Based on the map, people in Nevada don't like syrup. Apr 11, 2008

  • seanahan From personal experience, I find the results highly suspect. Apr 11, 2008

  • pterodactyl See this map for American pronunciation. Apr 10, 2008

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