sillabub
pronunciation
How to pronounce sillabub in British English:
UK ['sɪləbʌb]
How to pronounce sillabub in American English:
US ['sɪləˌbʌb]
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- Noun:
- spiced hot milk with rum or wine
- sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor
Word Origin
- sillabub (n.)
- also sillibub, syllabub, etc., 1530s, of unknown origin. Drink or dish of milk and wine or cider, often sweetened. Figurative sense of "floridly vapid prose" is from 1706.