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sillibub

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sil⋅la⋅bub

[sil-uh-buhb]
–noun
syllabub.
Also, sil⋅li⋅bub.
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sillabub 
c.1537, of unknown origin. Drink or dish of milk and wine or cider, often sweetened. Figurative sense of "floridly vapid prose" is from 1706.
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