molasses

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  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): [məˈlæ.sɨz], [mɵˈlæ.sɨz]
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): [məˈlæ.sɪz]
  • Rhymes: -æsɪz

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French mélasse or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese melaço (compare Spanish melaza), all from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "LL." is not valid. See WT:LOL. mellāceus (“honeylike, honey-sweet”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mel (“honey”). See mellifluous

Noun

molasses (uncountable)

  1. A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      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.
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Etymology 2

Noun

molasses

  1. plural of molasse

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