syrupy
or sir·up·y
[sir-uh-pee, sur-]
- 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
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Examples from the Web for syrupy
Contemporary Examples
And now here we are, some of us anyway, looking back with syrupy nostalgia to the Sam Goody days!
Pour half of the syrupy liquid over the pandoro and apricot base.
Historical Examples
Wish my tongue was as soothin'-syrupy as that Mr. Badger's is.
Thankful's InheritanceJoseph C. Lincoln
“You may come out now, my little ones,” she said in her most syrupy tones.
The Italian TwinsLucy Fitch Perkins
This may be known by the liquid becoming dense and syrupy in appearance.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
He was drinking a cup of thick, syrupy coffee, and soaking a rusk in it.
The Golden SilenceC. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
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 IIArnold Cooley
syrupy
- (of a liquid) thick or sweet
- cloyingly sentimentala syrupy version of the Blue Danube
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