Treacle vs Caramel - What's the difference?
treacle | caramel |
(obsolete) An antidote for poison; theriac.
(chiefly, British) A syrupy byproduct of sugar refining; molasses or golden syrup.
Cloying sentimental speech.
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A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
A yellow-brown color.
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As nouns the difference between treacle and caramel
is that treacle is an antidote for poison; theriac while caramel is a smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.treacle
English
(wikipedia treacle)Noun
- The public tributes to Griffith were over-the-top in a way his acting never was, spreading treacle from the evening newscasts to the front page of the New York Times .
Derived terms
* treacle paper * treacle tart * treaclyAnagrams
*caramel
English
Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Both the two syllable and the three syllable pronunciations are very common in all regions of the United States, but the trisyllabic pronunciation is more common than the disyllabic one in the South (excluding western Texas), northern New Jersey, eastern New York and New England, while the disyllabic one is more common than the trisyllabic one in other regions.Dialect Survey map 1], showing that both pronunciations are common in all regions, and [http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/SurveyMaps/ map 2, showing which regions the di- and tri-syllabic pronunciations predominate in