Don't get pissy because people are annoyed with you. Anyone who has contributed to the building of your server empire has every right to lose patience with you. For some reason, you absolutely refuse to RTFM on any piece of software.
Because you're a little scant on the details, we don't know if you just entered
FROM 'alexillsley_test'@'localhost'
into the MySQL client. If that's the case, then you rightly deserve a MySQL syntax error. If however you entered
REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* FROM 'widgetAdmin'@'localhost'
and you received a mysql syntax error, something is very wrong here...
I checked my answers by typing
mysql revoke example
into google, and then hitting "I'm feeling lucky". You know what? It came up with an example on how to use the REVOKE statement on MySQL. Even better, it's in a document titled "Getting Started with MySQL".
I'm superfly TNT