Molasses

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːsɪz

French mélasse or Portuguese melaço compare Spanish melaza, from Late Latin mellaceus "honeylike", "honey-sweet", from Latin mel, mellis, "honey". See mellifluous and compare melasses.

Full definition of molasses

Noun

1. A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 5, 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.

Synonyms

• long sweetening, treacle

Derived terms

• slow as molasses in January

Noun

plural

1. Plural of molasse