Treacle

Word TREACLE
Character 7
Hyphenation trea cle
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Treacle"

What do we mean by treacle?

Cloying speech or sentiment. noun

Molasses. noun

A medicinal compound formerly used as an antidote for poison. noun

A medicinal compound of various ingredients, formerly believed to be capable of curing or preventing the effects of poison, particularly the effects of the bite of a serpent. See theriac. noun

More generally, a remedy; a panacea; a sovereign antidote or restorative: often used figuratively. noun

The spume of sugar in sugar-refineries: so called as resembling in appearance or supposed medicinal properties the ancient theriacal compounds. noun

A saccharine fluid consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch or of the sugar-maple. noun

One of several plants sometimes regarded as antidotes to poison, or named from plants so regarded. See the phrases below. noun

A remedy against poison. See theriac, 1. noun

A sovereign remedy; a cure. noun

Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses. noun

A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, and the like. noun

A name given to several species of the cruciferous genus Erysimum, especially the Erysimum cheiranthoides, which was formerly used as an ingredient in Venice treacle, or theriac. noun

A compound cordial prepared in different ways from a variety of ingredients, as hartshorn, roots of various plants, flowers, juices of plants, wines, etc., distilled or digested with Venice treacle. It was formerly regarded as a medicine of great virtue. noun

Same as Theriac, 1. noun

An antidote for poison; theriac. noun

A syrupy byproduct of sugar refining; molasses or golden syrup. noun

Cloying sentimental speech. noun

Writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental noun

A pale cane syrup noun

A syrupy byproduct of sugar refining; molasses or golden syrup.

Cloying sentimental speech.

Sweetheart (from treacle tart).

An antidote for poison; theriac.

Any all-powerful curative; a general remedy, a cure-all.

Coloquial (UK): An attractive woman. Urban Dictionary

N.Sweetheart. From the cockney rhyming slang 'treacle tart'. Urban Dictionary

Molassas, honey is also described as treacle. Urban Dictionary

Pronounced 'tray-a-kul' - a person who hails from the Mid Wales town of Welshpool. Apparently there used to be (and still may be) a treacle factory there. Urban Dictionary

A kid who refuses to hand over their milk to royalty Urban Dictionary

An idea that sticks or spreads. Urban Dictionary

Roses are red violets are blue nah I’m just bullshitting To the treacle tart who’s stole my heart Your pretty, funny and kind. Someone I didn’t expect to find. ever since we started talking I can’t get you off my mind. When I’m feeling drown you always turn my frown upside down. I’m sorry I couldn’t afford the crown you deserve my queen. Your shiny smile is enough to keep me going for a while. I’m so interested and invested in this thing I wish I was born in your perfect pacific piercing blue eyes so I could caress down your gentle cheek and touch your soft lips. That didn’t rhyme so I’ll cut to the line your my Devine sunshine let me refine be mine let’s align Will you be my Valentine Urban Dictionary

Little fucker Urban Dictionary

To have extensive diarrhoea, usually accidently and in a public place Urban Dictionary

Also see Syrup tits. Tits so empty and floppy that they spill over a bra like treacle dripping from a kitchen counter Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Treacle

The word "treacle" in example sentences

The English term treacle comes via the French triacle from the Latin theriaca, meaning antidotes against poison. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

We moaned back then, but the politics and bureaucracy you guys face, it must be like swimming uphill in treacle! ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

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! ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (1930)

I mean that he’s probably thick as two planks dipped in treacle, dimmo. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The second boiling produces a much darker syrup, which British cooks call treacle (or dark treacle) and we call molasses (or dark molasses). ❋ Unknown (2009)

SummaryIf you can't get treacle, which is more common in Great Britain than in the U.S., molasses makes a fine substitute. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yours look fabulous - love the idea of treacle on cream on scone. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The sap is concentrated by boiling, and is then called treacle, which it very much resembles in taste. ❋ Unknown (2003)

We had been reduced to the ignominy of cultivating a toleration of what was called treacle, and even that nauseous compound was drifting towards extinction. ❋ T. Phelan (N/A)

Milk _and_ sugar -- didn't I hear a suggestion of golden syrup, more honestly called treacle, yesterday? ❋ George Gissing (1880)

From a trough, open at the lower end, a thick liquid was flowing, called "molasses," or treacle, which is used for making rum, gingerbread, and for other purposes. ❋ Lucien Biart (1863)

Alroit there treacle? [Sorry].. hey! [come back] [duchess]! ❋ Spencer (2003)

See [Eastenders] for [countless] examples of this and other [classics] such as 'you're 'aving a barf' ❋ Ben (2005)

Please get the jar of treacle (molassas) off the [pantry] [shelf] for our treacle [tarts]. ❋ Luxie (2006)

[At least I'm not] an [in-bred] like you, you treacle c**t! ❋ European_bob (2005)

"[Do you] know who [I am] [treacle]?" ❋ Williwanker (2017)

[Al Gore's] 'An Inconvenient Truth' was treacl. ❋ Davidch999 (2011)

If you say no I was [only joking] if not [Bubs] [was here] Treacle ❋ Road Man 1 (2021)

[Are you] [talking to] that [treacle] again? ❋ Bawbag1984 (2014)

[Temple] ate his dads [curry] and later the [poor guy] just couldnt make it in time and treacled his underwear Nice.... ❋ Little Miss Mayonnaise (2005)

[Wow] those are [some nasty] [treacle tits]. ❋ The Milk Man Cometh (2020)

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