Noun: sarsaparilla
| Singular | sarsaparilla |
| Plural | sarsaparillas |
Sample Sentences
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“[…]If Cassidy goes around shooting their fingers off, how are they going to lift their sarsaparilla?” “Rustlers don't drink sarsaparilla,” came the reply, ending the conversation and throwing me back inside my twenty-yard line. [1951, John Lardner, Strong Cigars and Lovely Women, page 4:]
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Many root teas taste delightful and the old American drink, sarsaparilla, was made on the lines of a decoction, while its pleasant taste was known by most of Victorian Britain. [1985, Jill Davies, A Garden of Miracles, →ISBN, page 52:]
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Say, friend, you got any more of that good sarsaparilla? [1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by The Stranger (Sam Elliott):]
Nouns inflected like sarsaparilla
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Spanish zarzaparrilla. The first element may ultimately derive from Basque; see Spanish zarza (“blackberry bush”) for more. The usual pronunciation of the first part of the word as /sæsp-/ or /sɑːsp-/ may be due to dissimilatory loss of the first of two r sounds (compare governor /ˈɡʌvənɚ/ and February /ˈfɛb.juˌɛɹi/). Occasionally this word is pronounced with a schwa between the s and the p, or without a schwa between the p and the r. See: Spanish Nouns '
zarzaparrilla', Spanish Nouns '
zarza'.
Verbs referencing "sarsaparilla"
Finnish Nouns
sarsaparilla.