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maple-syrupy

maple-syrupy adjective: with maple syrup.

Adjective

maple-syrupy (comparative more maple-syrupy, superlative most maple-syrupy)

  1. With maple syrup.
    • While hibernating, Little Bear spent most of his time dreaming about huge, fluffy, buttery, maple-syrupy pancakes.1960 November 23, Gerry Vanek, “Thanksgiving Good for Reading”, in The Desert Sun, volume XXXIV, number 99, Palm Springs, Calif., page 12, column 4
    • It is time, after I take a long, hot shower then drench my taste buds with some maple-syrupy pancakes (Dennis has filled them with bananas, my favorite) to hear about Jackie’s evening.2005, Linda Lenhoff, Latte Lessons, New York, N.Y.: Strapless, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 17
    Synonyms:
    maple-syruped
  2. Resembling or characteristic of maple syrup.
    • Another way to astound your friends these days, Blake says, is to import your own freshly-smoked salmon from Nova Scotia. If your friends are Jewish, don’t expect them to be too terribly impressed. It may look like lox but it ain’t (it’s saltier and has a maple-syrupy taste).1979 January 25, John Dalmas, “You’re nobody till . . .”, in The Journal-News, Rockland County, N.Y., page 3M, column 1
    • The most common indication of maple syrup urine disease is a characteristic odor, a distinctive maple-syrupy odor of the urine and perspiration.1990, Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Postmortem, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 234

Examples of maple-syrupy in a sentence

  • Another reader also touted the bacon, saying “the bacon was incredible—sort of a maple-syrupy taste—and the potatoes were spicy with caramelized onions.”2001 May 10, W.E. Moranville, “Readers share the ways they start their day”, in The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Ia., page 24DB:
  • The females have a lemony, maple-syrupy smell; the males, which have more glands for scent marking, smell muskier.2005 June, Sharon T. Pochron, Patricia C[happle] Wright, “Dance of the Sexes”, in Natural History, volume 114, number 5, page 36, column 2:
  • It’s the maple-syrupy taste of victory. / Sweet.2010 December 4, Pete McMartin, “The new CBC lineup for 2011: Taste victory, Canada”, in The Vancouver Sun, page A4, column 6:
  • Digger waved his under his nose and I did the same: the deceptively sweet maple-syrupy smell hit me as it had that evening in LA on Remo’s porch.2012, Cecilia Tan, “Had a Dad”, in Daron’s Guitar Chronicles, Omnibus 1: A Story of Rock and Roll, Coming Out, and Coming of Age in the...

Synonyms of maple-syrupy

Forms of maple-syrupy

comparativemore maple-syrupy
superlativemost maple-syrupy
alternative formmaple syrupy

Origin of maple-syrupy

From maple syrup + -y.

Questions about maple-syrupy

What does maple-syrupy mean?
Maple-syrupy means with maple syrup.
How do you use maple-syrupy in a sentence?
Another reader also touted the bacon, saying “the bacon was incredible—sort of a maple-syrupy taste—and the potatoes were spicy with caramelized onions.”
What part of speech is maple-syrupy?
Maple-syrupy is an adjective.

Words near maple-syrupy in the dictionary

  1. maple-sugar
  2. maple-sugared
  3. maple-syrup urine disease
  4. maple-syrup-urine disease
  5. maple-syruped
  6. maple-syrupy
  7. maple-wash
  8. Maplebeck
  9. Maplebecks
  10. maplelike
  11. Mapler

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