Molasses vs Molasseslike - What's the difference?
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A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.
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Resembling molasses in any of various respects, such as consistency, flavor, or color
As a noun molasses
is a thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar or molasses can be .As an adjective molasseslike is
resembling molasses in any of various respects, such as consistency, flavor, or color.molasses
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Etymology 1
(etyl) '' compare Spanish ''melaza'', from ''mellaceus'' "honeylike", "honey-sweet", from (etyl) ''mel'', ''mellis'', "honey". See ''mellifluous'' and compare ''melasses .Noun
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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, treacleDerived terms
* slow as molasses in JanuaryEtymology 2
Noun
(head)References
* *molasseslike
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Alternative forms
*molasses-likeAdjective
(en adjective)- The vessel was filled with a thick, molasseslike fluid.
