Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sillibub .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
syllabub .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun spiced hot milk with rum or wine
- noun sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor
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Examples
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December 17, 2007 at 1:42 am sry, Ambercat, nawt pawsybl tu sai “fuxin yr persepshunz” in wun-sillabub werdz
Meeror - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Take two porringers of cream and one of white wine, grate in the skin of a lemon, take the whites of three eggs, sweeten it to your taste, then whip it with a whisk, take off the froth as it rises, and put it into your sillabub-glasses or pots, whether you have, then they are fit for use.
English Housewifery 2004
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We came presently to a little stone summerhouse or arbour, enclustered with leaves and flowers of ivy and convolvulus, wherein two great dishes of cherries stood and bowls of honeycomb and sillabub.
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914
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Mary Magdalen salvaged a fine china sillabub stand, with little white-and-gold covered cups on it, from
A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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At a minuet or sillabub, poor Antoinette was unrivaled; and Charles, on the tightrope, was so graceful and so gentil that Madame Saqui might envy him.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Various 1885
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Having employed about two hours in retirement, I sallied out at the first summons to breakfast, where our conversation with the ladies, like whip sillabub, was very pretty, but had nothing in it.
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It nevertheless involved a charm, on which -- a devoted epicure of my own emotions -- I resolved to pause, and enjoy the moral sillabub until quite dissolved away.
The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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'We were just saying how nice it would be to have two or three pretty girls, and a sillabub, under those cedars,' replied Captain Bouncey.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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Hints that are not followed up; information not elaborated into a thin pedagogic sillabub or froth; seed that is sown on the waters with no thought of reaping; faith in a God who does not pay at the end of each week, month, or year, but who always pays abundantly some time; training which does not develop hypertrophied memory-pouches that carry, or creative powers that discover and produce -- these are lines on which such an institution should develop.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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(also spelt sillabub) ` a drink or dish made of milk or cream, curdled by the admixture of wine, cider, or other acid, and often sweetened or flavored 'is a corruption (involving metathesis) of the Italian zabaglione, which is after all a pretty similar concoction.
missanthropist commented on the word sillabub
A frothy food to be slaped' or 'slubbered up'; prepared by milking from the cow into a vessel containing wine, spirits, spice, et al.
Hensleigh Wegdwood, Dictionary of English Etymology, 1878
"Selibub... is goode to coole a cholerick stomacke"
Thoomas Cogan, Haven of Health, 1584
February 4, 2009
yarb commented on the word sillabub
Also syllabub.
February 5, 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word sillabub
(noun) - (1) A drink made of stale beer or wine, sweeten'd with sugar and milk strained into it from the cow.
--John Kersey's New English Dictionary, 1772
(2) A frothy food to be slapped or slubbered up, prepared by milking from the cow into a vessel containing wine or spirits . . . The word is a corruption of slap-up or slub-up . . . and is the exact equivalent of Low German slabb' ut, Swiss schlabutz, watery food, spoon-meat, explained as to slap, lap or sup up food with a certain noise.
--Hensleigh Wedgwood's Dictionary of English Etymology, 1878
(3) Curds made by milking into vinegar. This word has exercised the etymologists. John Minshew thinks it corrupted from swillingbubbles . . . Henshaw deduces it from the Dutch sulle, a pipe, and buyck, a paunch, because sillabubs are commonly drunk through a spout, out of a jug . . . It seems more probably derived from . . . old English esil a bouc, vinegar for the mouth.
--Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
(4) Selibub . . . is good to coole a cholerick stomacke.
--Thomas Cogan's Haven of Health, 1584
January 16, 2018