molasses
Noun
- thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining
- A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.
- Any similarly thick and sweet syrup produced by boiling down fruit juices, tree saps, etc., especially concentrated maple syrup.
- Anything considered figuratively sweet, especially sweet words.
- Something which moves or works extremely slowly.
- plural of molass: whiskey made from molasses.
- Synonym of molass: whiskey made from molasses.
- plural of molasse
Verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of molass
Examples
- "He really poured on the molasses, charming his audience and changing more than a few votes."
Origin / Etymology
From Portuguese melaços or Spanish melazos, from Late Latin mellacium (“must, honey-sweet thing”), from mel (“honey”) + -āceus (“-aceous”) + -ium, q.v. Some alternative forms derived or influenced by Spanish melaza and French mélasse, conjectured to derive from unattested Late Latin mellacea, from mel + -ācea.
Scrabble Score: 10
molasses is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordmolasses is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
molasses is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 12
molasses is a valid Words With Friends word