treacle
IPA: trˈikʌɫ
noun
- (chiefly Britain) A syrupy byproduct of sugar refining; molasses or golden syrup.
- Cloying sentimental speech.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Sweetheart (from treacle tart).
- (obsolete) Synonym of theriac: an antidote for poison, especially snakebite; a supposedly universal antidote.
- (obsolete, figurative) Synonym of cure: an all-powerful curative for some particular affliction.
- (obsolete, figurative) Synonym of cure-all: a panacea for all human ailments.
verb
- To apply treacle to a surface, so as to catch flies or moths, etc.
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Examples of "treacle" in Sentences
- Buxton hears this and goes off to the Treacle factory.
- The treacle then rose to the surface many years later.
- Golden syrup is the main sweetener in the treacle tart.
- The palmyrah syrup is used for producing toddy and treacle.
- Ditchford is famous as the locality of reputed treacle mines.
- So it is perfectly correct to refer to golden syrup as treacle.
- The thick black nature of treacle makes the deception plausible.
- Treacle and Molasses are similar in composition in water and sucrose.
- Another, Ditchford was said to be the location of famous treacle mines.
- Treacle is used chiefly in cooking as a form of sweetener or condiment.
- I mean that he’s probably thick as two planks dipped in treacle, dimmo.
- The English term treacle comes via the French triacle from the Latin theriaca, meaning antidotes against poison.
- We moaned back then, but the politics and bureaucracy you guys face, it must be like swimming uphill in treacle!
- You’ll find other bizarre examples like this one The Power of Nice (Doubleday), a dish of treacle from the advertising executives who created the Aflac duck.
- At this point in Abel's meditations, his wife, Ruth, came in with a dish of figs preserved in grape treacle from a famous recipe that she claimed came from Palestine.
- Molasses Molasses, which is called treacle in the United Kingdom, is generally defined as the syrup left over in cane sugar processing after the readily crystallizable sucrose has been removed from the boiled juice.
- Rope suspended upon poles, to which was tied by small twine two lumps of pudding drip'd in treacle, under which stood on stools, two boys with their hands tied behind them, whose business it was to catch the pudding in their mouths!
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