molasses

• melasses (obsolete)

• (General American) IPA^(key): [məˈlæ.sɨz], [mɵˈlæ.sɨz]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [məˈlæ.sɪz]
• Rhymes: -æsɪz

French mélasse or Portuguese melaço (compare Spanish melaza), all from Late Latin mellāceus (“honeylike, honey-sweet”), from Latin mel (“honey”). See mellifluous

molasses (uncountable)

1. A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

• long sweetening, treacle
• sorghum syrup

molasses

1. plural of molasse

• molasses in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “molasses” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.