syllabubn.

Brit.

/ˈsɪləbʌb/, U.S.

/ˈsɪləˌbəb/

Forms: α. 1500s solybubbe, 1600s sullabub, sullibib, sullybub, 1600s–1700s sullibub. β. 1500s selybube, 1500s–1600s seli-, 1600s sellibub, sallibube. γ. 1500s sillye-, 1500s–1600s syllibub, 1600s sillie bube, cilli-, 1600s–1700s sillibub, 1800s Scottish sillybob. δ. 1500s sillabubbe, 1500s– silla-, 1600s– syllabub.

Etymology: Of obscure origin: compare sillibouk n. and syllab n.² The most frequent spelling from c1700 has been syllabub, under the influence of syllable.

1. A drink or dish made of milk (frequently as drawn from the cow) or cream, curdled by the admixture of wine, cider, or other acid, and often sweetened and flavoured. In common use from the 16th cent. to about the middle of the 19th cent., and revived in the 20th.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > milk and cream dishes > [noun] > sillabub

syllabub?1562

sillibouk1574

sillub1583

merribowk1611

whip-syllabub1740

zabaglione1899

α.

?1562 Thersytes sig. D.i You and I..Muste walke to him and eate a solybubbe.

1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 1186 Some, Sulli-bibs among the Milk-maids, making.

1663 S. Pepys Diary 12 July (1971) IV. 227 Then to Comissioner Petts and had a good Sullybub.

1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden iv, in Wks. (1778) II. 52 Then they must..have the Sullabubs and Tarts brought into the Coach to 'em.

1733 S. Harrison House-keeper's Pocket-bk. vii. 27 Sullibubs.

β. 1570 in J. J. Cartwright Chapters Hist. Yks. (1872) 55 They brough this examynent a selybube to drynk.1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cc. 166 A posset or Selibub made of Verjuice, is good to coole a cholerick stomacke.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 348 They vsed to thicken their milk into a kind of pleasant soure curd in manner of a Sellibub.γ. 1591–2 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Prognost. in Wks. (Grosart) II. 165 Maides this quarter shall make sillyebubbes for their Louers.1602 in Lyly's Wks. (1902) I. 492 First you shall haue a dayntie sillibub; next a messe of clowted creame.1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. v. 6 Leave the Foggy Ayr of London, and com hither.., wher you may pluck a Rose, and drink a Cillibub.1737 in J. Colville Ochtertyre House Bk. of Accomps (1907) 104 Sillibubs and cold beefe.1822 J. Galt Provost xxx. 229 Instead of the light tarts, and nice jellies and sillybobs that were expected.δ. 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 60 Ye Granta's white Nymphs, come & with you bring Some sillabub.1631 R. Brathwait Cater-character iii. 20 in Whimzies This purchaseth him, upon better acquaintance, a posset or a Sillibub.a1668 W. Davenant Vacation in London in Wks. (1673) 289 Her Elbow small she oft does rub; Tickled with hope of Sillabub!1704 W. King Mully of Mountown 18 Thy White-Wine, Sugar, Milk, to-gether Club To make that gentle Viand Syllabub.1758 B. Thornton Idler 22 July 121 Besides what it costs me in Tea and hot Rolls, and Syllabubs.1817 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1982) X. 545 Some other ingredient that, when it is poured into a Pan, bubbles up like a syllabub.1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xi. lxii. 351 How nice it would be to have..a sillabub, under those cedars.1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. vii. 122 We retire to tea or syllabub beneath the shade of some great oak.1911 M. A. Fairclough Ideal Cookery Bk. 722 Syllabubs... Fill some custard glasses rather more than half full with the mixture.1976 Sat. Evening Post All-American Cookbk. 259/2 A syllabub is a ladylike version of eggnog.

2. figurative.

a. Something unsubstantial and frothy; esp. floridly vapid discourse or writing.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > embellishment > ornate and rapid composition

syllabub1706

lollipopa1849

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Sillabub, or Sillibub,..is figuratively taken for a florid, but frothy and empty Discourse.

1768 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 410 Latin and Greek books (compared with which most of the English are whipped Syllabub).

1847 Sedgwick in Clark & Hughes Life & Lett. (1890) II. 113 I shall never again endure the rounded periods and syllabub of Robertson.

1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xvii. 173 I resolved to pause, and enjoy the moral sillabub until quite dissolved away.

1889 Daily News 11 May 2/1 The new bonnets are the veriest trifles; mere syllabubs of frothed-up lace.

attributive.1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiii. 278 When did I whip up syllabub sonnets, or string stanzas fragile as fragments of glass?

b. A mixture, combination.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture

mingingOE

mungc1175

meddlingc1384

mellaya1400

mixture?a1425

commixtion?a1439

medley1440

brothc1515

mingly1545

mingle1548

maslin1574

miscellane1582

commixture1590

flaumpaump1593

salad1603

miscellany1609

common1619

cento1625

misturea1626

mixtil1654

concrete1656

contemperation1664

ragout1672

crasis1677

alloy1707

mixtible1750

galimatias1762

misc.1851

syllabub1859

mixtry1862

cocktail1868

blend1883

admix1908

mix-up1918

mix1959

meld1973

katogo1994

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians lxxvii Aunt Lambert..was one great syllabub of human kindness.

Compounds

General attributive.

syllabub glass n.

ΚΠ

1677 in S. Young Hist. Worshipful Company Glass Sellers of London (1913) App. 68 All covers for drinking or ‘Sullibub’ glasses ribbed and plain shall be delivered at 3s. per lb.

1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. Kk8^v Scum off the Froth, and put it into Syllabub Glasses.

1897 A. Hartshorne Old Eng. Glasses xix. 308 In Mr. Cuming's collection is an open-mouthed glass tumbler, a family relic, 3½ inches high, said to be of the first part of the last century, and called from time immemorial ‘a syllabub or whip glass’.

1970 G. Savage Dict. Antiques 418/2 In the 1770s the old syllabub glass, which was always on a stem and a foot, became unfashionable and was replaced by a stemless glass.

syllabub jug n.

ΚΠ

1975 Country Life 2 Jan. 11/3 A Syllabub Jug in Ravenscroft Glass.

syllabub pot n.

ΚΠ

a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 230 A large Syllabub-pot.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xiv. 9/2 He beareth sable, a possett pott, or a wassell cup, or a sallibube pott.

1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. Ll Fill your Syllabub-Pot with Cyder..Sugar..Cream.

1910 Queen 9 July 65/1 This syllabub or posset pot is very interesting and..the date of it has been fixed at about 1700.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	syllabub
释义	syllabubn. Brit. /ˈsɪləbʌb/, U.S. /ˈsɪləˌbəb/ Forms: α. 1500s solybubbe, 1600s sullabub, sullibib, sullybub, 1600s–1700s sullibub. β. 1500s selybube, 1500s–1600s seli-, 1600s sellibub, sallibube. γ. 1500s sillye-, 1500s–1600s syllibub, 1600s sillie bube, cilli-, 1600s–1700s sillibub, 1800s Scottish sillybob. δ. 1500s sillabubbe, 1500s– silla-, 1600s– syllabub. Etymology: Of obscure origin: compare sillibouk n. and syllab n.² The most frequent spelling from c1700 has been syllabub, under the influence of syllable. 1. A drink or dish made of milk (frequently as drawn from the cow) or cream, curdled by the admixture of wine, cider, or other acid, and often sweetened and flavoured. In common use from the 16th cent. to about the middle of the 19th cent., and revived in the 20th. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > milk and cream dishes > [noun] > sillabub syllabub?1562 sillibouk1574 sillub1583 merribowk1611 whip-syllabub1740 zabaglione1899 α. ?1562 Thersytes sig. D.i You and I..Muste walke to him and eate a solybubbe. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 1186 Some, Sulli-bibs among the Milk-maids, making. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 12 July (1971) IV. 227 Then to Comissioner Petts and had a good Sullybub. 1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden iv, in Wks. (1778) II. 52 Then they must..have the Sullabubs and Tarts brought into the Coach to 'em. 1733 S. Harrison House-keeper's Pocket-bk. vii. 27 Sullibubs. β. 1570 in J. J. Cartwright Chapters Hist. Yks. (1872) 55 They brough this examynent a selybube to drynk.1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cc. 166 A posset or Selibub made of Verjuice, is good to coole a cholerick stomacke.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 348 They vsed to thicken their milk into a kind of pleasant soure curd in manner of a Sellibub.γ. 1591–2 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Prognost. in Wks. (Grosart) II. 165 Maides this quarter shall make sillyebubbes for their Louers.1602 in Lyly's Wks. (1902) I. 492 First you shall haue a dayntie sillibub; next a messe of clowted creame.1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. v. 6 Leave the Foggy Ayr of London, and com hither.., wher you may pluck a Rose, and drink a Cillibub.1737 in J. Colville Ochtertyre House Bk. of Accomps (1907) 104 Sillibubs and cold beefe.1822 J. Galt Provost xxx. 229 Instead of the light tarts, and nice jellies and sillybobs that were expected.δ. 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 60 Ye Granta's white Nymphs, come & with you bring Some sillabub.1631 R. Brathwait Cater-character iii. 20 in Whimzies This purchaseth him, upon better acquaintance, a posset or a Sillibub.a1668 W. Davenant Vacation in London in Wks. (1673) 289 Her Elbow small she oft does rub; Tickled with hope of Sillabub!1704 W. King Mully of Mountown 18 Thy White-Wine, Sugar, Milk, to-gether Club To make that gentle Viand Syllabub.1758 B. Thornton Idler 22 July 121 Besides what it costs me in Tea and hot Rolls, and Syllabubs.1817 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1982) X. 545 Some other ingredient that, when it is poured into a Pan, bubbles up like a syllabub.1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xi. lxii. 351 How nice it would be to have..a sillabub, under those cedars.1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. vii. 122 We retire to tea or syllabub beneath the shade of some great oak.1911 M. A. Fairclough Ideal Cookery Bk. 722 Syllabubs... Fill some custard glasses rather more than half full with the mixture.1976 Sat. Evening Post All-American Cookbk. 259/2 A syllabub is a ladylike version of eggnog. 2. figurative. a. Something unsubstantial and frothy; esp. floridly vapid discourse or writing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > embellishment > ornate and rapid composition syllabub1706 lollipopa1849 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Sillabub, or Sillibub,..is figuratively taken for a florid, but frothy and empty Discourse. 1768 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 410 Latin and Greek books (compared with which most of the English are whipped Syllabub). 1847 Sedgwick in Clark & Hughes Life & Lett. (1890) II. 113 I shall never again endure the rounded periods and syllabub of Robertson. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xvii. 173 I resolved to pause, and enjoy the moral sillabub until quite dissolved away. 1889 Daily News 11 May 2/1 The new bonnets are the veriest trifles; mere syllabubs of frothed-up lace. attributive.1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiii. 278 When did I whip up syllabub sonnets, or string stanzas fragile as fragments of glass? b. A mixture, combination. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture mingingOE mungc1175 meddlingc1384 mellaya1400 mixture?a1425 commixtion?a1439 medley1440 brothc1515 mingly1545 mingle1548 maslin1574 miscellane1582 commixture1590 flaumpaump1593 salad1603 miscellany1609 common1619 cento1625 misturea1626 mixtil1654 concrete1656 contemperation1664 ragout1672 crasis1677 alloy1707 mixtible1750 galimatias1762 misc.1851 syllabub1859 mixtry1862 cocktail1868 blend1883 admix1908 mix-up1918 mix1959 meld1973 katogo1994 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians lxxvii Aunt Lambert..was one great syllabub of human kindness. Compounds General attributive. syllabub glass n. ΚΠ 1677 in S. Young Hist. Worshipful Company Glass Sellers of London (1913) App. 68 All covers for drinking or ‘Sullibub’ glasses ribbed and plain shall be delivered at 3s. per lb. 1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. Kk8^v Scum off the Froth, and put it into Syllabub Glasses. 1897 A. Hartshorne Old Eng. Glasses xix. 308 In Mr. Cuming's collection is an open-mouthed glass tumbler, a family relic, 3½ inches high, said to be of the first part of the last century, and called from time immemorial ‘a syllabub or whip glass’. 1970 G. Savage Dict. Antiques 418/2 In the 1770s the old syllabub glass, which was always on a stem and a foot, became unfashionable and was replaced by a stemless glass. syllabub jug n. ΚΠ 1975 Country Life 2 Jan. 11/3 A Syllabub Jug in Ravenscroft Glass. syllabub pot n. ΚΠ a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 230 A large Syllabub-pot. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xiv. 9/2 He beareth sable, a possett pott, or a wassell cup, or a sallibube pott. 1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. Ll Fill your Syllabub-Pot with Cyder..Sugar..Cream. 1910 Queen 9 July 65/1 This syllabub or posset pot is very interesting and..the date of it has been fixed at about 1700. 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