molasses
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese melaços or Spanish melazos, from Late Latin mellacium (“must, honey-sweet thing”), from mel (“honey”) + -āceus (“-aceous”) + -ium, q.v. Some alternative forms derived or influenced by Spanish melaza and French mélasse, conjectured to derive from unattested Late Latin mellacea, from mel + -ācea.
Inflected forms:
form: molass
pos: noun
tags: singular
form: mollasses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: malasses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: merlaasses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: molassey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: molassy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: melasus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: molassos
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: malassoes
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: malassos
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: molossus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: melasses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mallassus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: malosses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mellasses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: milasses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: molassers
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: molossoes
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: molossos
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mullasses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: molosses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: melossus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mollossus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: molossas
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: molases
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mellosses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: moloses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: merlassers
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: millasses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: molassisis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Well, we had our breakfast of ship's bread and molasses, washed down with cannikins of something liquid - but not lovely.
When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
gloss: Any similarly thick and sweet syrup produced by boiling down fruit juices, tree saps, etc., especially concentrated maple syrup.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
examples: Boiled some cornstalk juice into molasses.
gloss: Anything considered figuratively sweet, especially sweet words.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: He really poured on the molasses, charming his audience and changing more than a few votes.
‘You're the cutest thing here,’ whispered Clyde, hugging her fondly.
‘Gee, but you can pour on the molasses, kid, when you want to,’ she called out loud.
...the mournful molasses of his prose...
gloss: Something which moves or works extremely slowly.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: Though faster than typing, the daisy wheel is molasses compared to dot matrix printers.
Of course, time was molasses in the cold months that bracketed that very long year; time was monotony. When all days are the same, memory caves in on itself.
It's worthwhile starting with the lowest-tier plan from your provider. If your internet is molasses, then you might consider an upgrade.
gloss: Synonym of molass: whiskey made from molasses.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
obsolete
rare
uncountable
usually
Synonyms: long sweetening
treacle
theriac
sorghum syrup
cane syrup
Derived words: like molasses
like molasses in January
maple molasses
molasses acid
molasses ale
molasses barrel
molasses beer
molasses bird
molasses brandy
molasses cake
molasses candy
molasses cane
molasses cask
molasses cistern
molasses cookie
molasses face
molasses gate
molasses gingerbread
molasses grass
molasses hogshead
molasses house
molasses jug
molasseslike
molasses rum
molasses scone
molasses settlings
molasses spirit
molasses taffy
molasses tank
molasses tierce
molassied
molassy
pomegranate molasses
slow as molasses
slow as molasses in January
slower than molasses
slower than molasses in January
sorghum molasses
sugar-house molasses
thick as molasses
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