Syrup vs Sirup - What's the difference?
syrup | sirup |
Any thick liquid that is added to or poured over food as a flavouring and has a high sugar content. Also any viscous liquid.
(Cockney rhyming slang''; ''shortened from syrup of figs ) A wig.
(obsolete) A thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.
(obsolete) A thick and viscid saccharine solution of superior quality (as sugarhouse sirup or molasses, maple sirup); specifically, in pharmacy and often in cookery, a saturated solution of sugar and water (simple sirup), or such a solution flavored or medicated.
:* Lucent sirups tinct with cinnamon. --.
Sirup is a alternative form of syrup.
As nouns the difference between syrup and sirup
is that syrup is any thick liquid that is added to or poured over food as a flavouring and has a high sugar content. Also any viscous liquid while sirup is a thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.syrup
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Alternative forms
* (l), surpNoun
- maple syrup
- pancake syrup