a thick sticky solution of sugar and water, often flavoured or mixed with medicinal substances
the concentrated juice of a fruit or plant, e.g. the sugar maple; esp the thick sticky liquid obtained from crushed sugarcane after evaporation and before crystallization in sugar manufacture
cloying sweetness or sentimentality
syrupy adj
[Middle English sirup via early French sirop and medieval Latin syrupus from Arabic sharāb beverage]