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syrupy

or sir·up·y

[ sir-uh-pee, sur- ]

/ ˈsɪr ə pi, ˈsɜr- /

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adjective

having the appearance or quality of syrup; thick or sweet: syrupy coffee.

sentimental or saccharine; mawkish: a syrupy manner; a syrupy poem.

Origin of syrupy

First recorded in 1700–10; syrup + -y¹

Words nearby syrupy

syros, syrphid, syrphid fly, syrtis major, syrup, syrupy, sys-, sysop, syssarcosis, syst., systaltic

Example sentences from the Web for syrupy

And now here we are, some of us anyway, looking back with syrupy nostalgia to the Sam Goody days!

Comedy Is His Calling: The Brilliance of Billy Crystal |Tom Shales |April 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Pour half of the syrupy liquid over the pandoro and apricot base.

Ham, Green Bean Casserole, Easy Trifle |The Daily Beast |December 23, 2008 |DAILY BEAST
“You may come out now, my little ones,” she said in her most syrupy tones.

The Italian Twins |Lucy Fitch Perkins
Add one cup hot water and bake in hot oven until liquor is "syrupy" and potatoes are brown on top.

Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners |Elizabeth O. Hiller

It may be concentrated in vacuo over a surface of oil of vitriol until it appears as a syrupy liquid of sp.

Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II |Arnold Cooley
With a quizzical frown she showed him the sidewalk which the thawing temperature had apparently coated with syrupy iced coffee.

Two banks of the Seine |Fernand Vandrem
This may be known by the liquid becoming dense and syrupy in appearance.

Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II |Arnold Cooley

British Dictionary definitions for syrupy

syrupy

/ (ˈsɪrəpɪ) /

adjective

(of a liquid) thick or sweet

cloyingly sentimental a syrupy version of the Blue Danube