maple syrupy

comparative more maple syrupy · superlative most maple syrupy

1. Alternative form of 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’ Network, Charlotte, N.C.: Catawba Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 137–138

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      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

      Celebrate Canada Day—or, as they like to say in Steveston Village, “Canada’s Biggest Little Birthday Party since 1945”—as the Canadians do, with a maple syrupy pancake breakfast, parade, and festivities.

      2019, Anna Katz, “Chinese Delights in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada”, in Easy Weekend Getaways from Seattle: Short Breaks in the Pacific Northwest (Countryman Weekenders), The Countryman Press, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, part one (Foodie Getaways)

   2. Resembling or characteristic of maple syrup.

      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

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      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

      For a moment I thought I did, a scent so heady and sweet it made me dizzy. I had to put my head down on the table to steady myself. 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

      Normal urine has a faint aromatic odour. 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