Definition of "syllabub" [syl•la•bub]

• A drink made of sweetened milk or cream curdled with wine or spirits. (noun)
• A cold dessert made with sweetened cream thickened with gelatin and beaten with wine, spirits, or fruit juice. (noun)

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• "It has always struck me as self-evident that the English word syllabub"
• "Oliver Owen Sussex, England READER'S QUERY H.re's one answer to Peter H. Marsden's query about the origin of the word syllabub [VI, 1]."
• "Breeze, and subsequently when removed to the old Kraaken line -- of -- battle ship, both of which were constantly part of blockading squadrons, could be compared to nothing more fitly than a dish of trifle, anciently called syllabub, with a stray plum here and there scattered at the bottom."