molasses

Etymology 1


From or, from , from  +  + , q.v. Some alternative forms derived or influenced by  and , conjectured to derive from unattested , from  +.

Noun
(usually uncountable, singular molass)


 * 1) A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially  the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.
 * 2)  Any similarly thick and sweet syrup produced by boiling down fruit juices, tree saps, etc., especially concentrated maple syrup.
 * 3) * 1777 Sept. 13, Manessah Cutler, Journal, s.v.:
 * Boiled some cornstalk juice into molasses.
 * 1)  Anything considered figuratively sweet, especially sweet words.
 * 2) * 1972 Nov. 26, New York Times Book Review, p. 1:
 * ...the mournful molasses of his prose...
 * 1)  Something which moves or works extremely slowly.
 * : whiskey made from molasses.
 * : whiskey made from molasses.
 * ...the mournful molasses of his prose...
 * 1)  Something which moves or works extremely slowly.
 * : whiskey made from molasses.
 * : whiskey made from molasses.
 * : whiskey made from molasses.
 * : whiskey made from molasses.
 * : whiskey made from molasses.

Usage notes

 * Likely adopted in plural form because of its origin in pieces left over from sugar processing, although now usually construed as a singular or uncountable liquid except in some southern and southern-influenced dialects of American English.

Synonyms

 * See sugar and honey
 * See sugar and honey

Translations

 * Afrikaans: melasse
 * Arabic: دِبْس
 * Gulf Arabic: دبس
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Belarusian: па́така, мэля́са
 * Breton: triakl
 * Bulgarian: меласа
 * Catalan: melassa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: melasse
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: melaso
 * Faroese: sukurvavstur, sukursiroppur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní:
 * Gujarati: કાકવી
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 당밀(糖蜜)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian: melasa
 * Manx: soo shugyr
 * Maori: mōrahihi, marahihi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: melasse
 * Nynorsk: melasse
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: q'ita
 * Russian:, , чёрная па́тока
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: malasi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pulot-tubo, melasa
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: กากน้ำตาล
 * Tocharian B: panit
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: melat
 * Yiddish: פּאַטיקע

Verb

 * : becomes drunk from molass.