英语词汇“black treacle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

black treacle

释义

treacle /trēˈkl/

noun

The dark, viscous uncrystallizable syrup obtained in refining sugar (also called black treacle)
Molasses, the drainings of crude sugar
Golden syrup
Blandishments, esp when suggestive of the cloying and nauseating taste and thickness of treacle
Intolerable sentimentality
Orig an antidote or prophylactic against bites, poisons, etc

transitive verb

To dose or smear with treacle

intransitive verb

To treacle trees in order to collect moths

ORIGIN: OFr triacle, from Gr thēriakē (antidotos) (an antidote to the bites) of beasts, from thērion a wild beast

treaˈcliness noun

treaˈcly adjective

treacle mustard noun

The cruciferous plant, Erysimum cheiranthoides

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