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.
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Treacle
//ˈtɹiː.kəl//
Synonyms for "treacle" (81 found)
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10 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
32 translations across 23 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- melasse noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Bulgarian
2 entries- меласа noun (molasses or golden syrup)
- петмез noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 糖膠 /糖胶 noun (molasses or golden syrup)
- 糖蜜 noun (molasses or golden syrup)
- 黑糖膠 /黑糖胶 noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 糖蜜 noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Danish
2 entries- melasse noun (molasses or golden syrup)
- mørk sirup noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Dutch
1 entries- melasse noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Esperanto
1 entries- melaso noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Finnish
4 entries- makeilu noun (cloying sentimental speech)
- melassi noun (molasses or golden syrup)
- mielistely noun (cloying sentimental speech)
- siirappi noun (molasses or golden syrup)
French
1 entries- mélasse noun (molasses or golden syrup)
German
1 entries- Melasse noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Hebrew
1 entries- דבשה noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Hungarian
1 entries- melasz noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Italian
1 entries- melassa noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Japanese
1 entries- 糖蜜 noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Māori
1 entries- tirīkara noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Norman
1 entries- m'lasse noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Polish
1 entries- melasa noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Portuguese
1 entries- melaço noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Russian
3 entries- мела́сса noun (molasses or golden syrup)
- па́тока noun (molasses or golden syrup)
- слаща́вость noun (cloying sentimental speech)
Spanish
1 entries- melaza noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Swedish
1 entries- melass noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Ukrainian
1 entries- па́тока noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Welsh
1 entries- triagl noun (molasses or golden syrup)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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.
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Listen, treacle, this is the last time I'll warn you!
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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.
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