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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.
    • There was something indescribable when a nearly starving kid tasted that first slice of maple syrupy pancake.2007, Raymond P. Berberian, “Retro Summers”, in Margaret Lorine, Sansing McPherson, Norma Van Amberg, editors, Hilton Head Island: Unpacked & Staying: A Lowcountry Anthology by the Island Writers’...
    • When she opened it, she had to blink several times, disoriented as the unmistakable scent of bacon and maple syrupy pancakes drifted to her.2017, RaeAnne Thayne, Sugar Pine Trail, Thorndike, Me.: Center Point Large Print, by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A., →ISBN, pages 190–191
  2. Resembling or characteristic of maple syrup.
    • While our food was prepared for appetizers we were given some cornbread and man I tell you that cornbread was delicious. It had like a maple syrupy taste to it and it was nice and thick too.2011, Age Lavelle, Spring Fling 2: Deception (A SmartStreetSwag Novel), Toledo, Oh.: Ageless Publishing, →ISBN, page 24
    • The maple syrupy smell that bacon inexplicably has when cooked on an open fire stimulated her taste buds.2016, Arnold Logan, Springtime in Lawrence Park, Toronto, Ont.: Fire and Ash Publishers, →ISBN, page 170

Examples of maple syrupy in a sentence

  • When the scent was replaced by the maple syrupy smell of old paper, I opened my eyes.2017, Carol Goodman, The Widow’s House, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 89:
  • Aberrations in odour include the following: […] Maple syrupy odour in maple syrup urine disease.2021, Geetika Khanna Bhattacharya, Concise Pathology for Exam Preparation, 4th edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 324, column 2:

Forms of maple syrupy

comparativemore maple syrupy
superlativemost maple syrupy

Questions about maple syrupy

What does maple syrupy mean?
Maple syrupy means with maple syrup.
How do you use maple syrupy in a sentence?
When the scent was replaced by the maple syrupy smell of old paper, I opened my eyes.
What part of speech is maple syrupy?
Maple syrupy is an adjective.

Words near maple syrupy in the dictionary

  1. maple sugars
  2. maple sugary
  3. maple syrup
  4. maple syrup urine disease
  5. maple syrups
  6. maple syrupy
  7. maple taffies
  8. maple taffy
  9. maple toffee
  10. maple toffees
  11. maple tree

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