chocolate syrup
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɔkəlɪt ˈsɪrəp/
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sirope de chocolate
- I love to pour chocolate syrup over my pancakes for breakfast.
- a tablespoon of chocolate syrup
- cream with chocolate syrup
- ice cream with chocolate syrup
Examples
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And she made the best upside-down pineapple cake, with all the frosting, whipped cream and chocolate syrup!
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They wanted chocolate syrup, so I heated the open can in a pot of water on the stove.
Fiction book (1991) -
Can I get some chocolate syrup?
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Would you like chocolate syrup?
Fiction book (1999) -
Bring us a big bowl of chocolate syrup.
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Adding a few tablespoons of chocolate syrup is good too.
Blog text (14) -
She spread chocolate syrup over the ice cream.
Fiction book (1996) -
Can I have strawberry sherbet with gummy worms and chocolate syrup on top?
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I've been blending up these shakes... with bananas and chocolate syrup... and making him drink them on the way to work.
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She added a generous amount of chocolate syrup to her ice cream sundae.
Synonyms
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A sweet sauce made from chocolate and sugar to pour over desserts
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A thick chocolate sauce served hot over desserts like ice cream
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Thick hot chocolate that you pour over ice cream
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Morphology
The noun+noun composition is fully compositional: 'chocolate' specifies the flavor/ingredient of 'syrup', so the meaning (a sweet, thick syrup made with chocolate/cocoa) is directly derivable from the constituent words. This is a common food-naming pattern across languages and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Chocolate syrup comes from a simple picture: melted or mixed chocolate made into a thick liquid you can pour. Because people pour that sweet liquid over ice cream or into milk, the name now means a thick, sweet 'topping' or sauce for desserts and drinks.