Treacle

Quick meaning: Treacle is a noun meaning Cloying sentimental speech.

Meaning

Cloying sentimental speech.

More Meanings

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) Sweetheart (from treacle tart).
2. (transitive) To apply treacle to a surface, so as to catch flies or moths, etc.
3. (chiefly UK, Ireland) A syrupy byproduct of sugar refining; molasses or golden syrup.
4. (historical, pharmacology) Synonym of theriac: an antidote for poison, especially snakebite; a supposedly universal antidote.

Example Sentences

Listen, treacle, this is the last time I'll warn you!

Didn’t you see how the cub was ashamed of the thick bread-and-butter? I dare say they’re going to have treacle if they are good.

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.

CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.

Word Forms

• treacles
• treacling
• treacled

Synonyms for treacle

Depending on context, synonyms include theriac.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include molasses, cloying, syrup, taffy, toffee, barley sugar.

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