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Definition of Sillabub
1. Noun. Spiced hot milk with rum or wine.
2. Noun. Sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor.
Definition of Sillabub
1. n. A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth.
Definition of Sillabub
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of syllabub) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sillabub
1. an alcoholic beverage or dessert [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sillabub
Literary usage of Sillabub
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences of a Nonagenarian by Sarah Smith Emery (1879)
"There were sillabub tables, small, square, four-legged ones, with a narrow ledge
running round the sides, on which were placed the glass ..."
2. An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1837)
"The ellipsis of milk-sillabub. Melk solle er b' op ; qe milk starts up from
it [flies up when it reaches it], milk is made to rise up at once by that which ..."
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