treacle

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There is twee and then there is dripping-in-sugar-and-rolling-in-treacle which is almost where this ends up as the saccharine vocals spread themselves thickly in songs like

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  1. noun Cloying speech or sentiment.
  2. noun Chiefly British Molasses.
  3. noun A medicinal compound formerly used as an antidote for poison.

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  • All is relative as we go flop into the ointment: or the treacle or the flame. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • There is twee and then there is dripping-in-sugar-and-rolling-in-treacle which is almost where this ends up as the saccharine vocals spread themselves thickly in songs like —  This Is Fake DIY
  • A good deal of aboriginal amateurishness has been evaporating as the woman doctor has been taking the place of the time-honoured amateur dispenser of brimstone and treacle, and even horrider things. —  G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study
  • Life!--to have herself caressed by HIM; humbly to devote herself to being humbly doted on; to be the slave of a slave; to swim in a private pond of treacle--ugh! —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
  • When the pork and the meal and the treacle were bestowed in the basket, it was so heavy she could not manage to carry it. —  The Carpenter's Daughter
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  1. Middle English triacle, antidote for poison, from Old French, from Latin thēriaca, from Greek thēriakē (antidotos), (antidote against) wild animals, feminine of thēriakos, of wild animals, from thērion, diminutive of thēr, beast; see ghwer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also triacle; from Middle English triacle, from Old French triacle, treacle, French thériaque =Provencal tiriaca, triacla =Spanish teriaca, triaca =Portuguese theriaga, triaga =Italian teriaca, from Latin theriaca, from Greek θηριακή (sc. ἀντίδοτος), an antidote against the (poisonous) bites of wild beasts: see theriac.
 

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