Definitions for sirup

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sirup sir·up

Spelling: [sir-uh p, sur-]

IPA: /ˈsɪr əp, ˈsɜr-/

Sirup is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in sirup (iprsu).

Definitions for sirup

noun

1. any of various thick, sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses, glucose, etc., water, and often a flavoring agent.
2. any of various preparations consisting of fruit juices, water, etc., boiled with sugar:
3. Pharmacology. a concentrated sugar solution that contains medication or flavoring.
4. simple syrup.

verb (used with object)

1. to bring to the form or consistency of syrup.
2. to cover, fill, or sweeten with syrup.

noun, verb (used with object)

1. syrup.

Origin of sirup

1350-1400; Medieval Latin syrupus Arabic sharāb a drink; replacing Middle English sirop Middle French Medieval Latin, as above

Examples for sirup

Well, by and by the sap in the little kettle had boiled into sirup.

Then the sap is boiled till it becomes sirup; and the sirup is boiled into sugar.

He began with an ivory toddy-stick to convert sugar and Bourbon into sirup.

I was trying to rub that zigzag stream of sirup off my apron; and O, how sick I grew!

Remove from the oven and serve with the sirup from the apricots.

Cool and then add the sirup to the cider and the juice of the lemons.

To "sugar off" is to boil the sirup until it is thick enough to crystallize into sugar.

It is used partly as a confection, but in the main as a sirup.

In the blossom they place a little cobalt or "fly-stone" and sirup.

Now it is a sponge-cake, now a meat-salad, now a pyramid of sweetmeats, now a jug of sirup.