molasses – English noun declension

English noun forms of molasses

Noun: molasses
Singularmolasses

Sample Sentences

  • Well, we had our breakfast of ship's bread and molasses, washed down with cannikins of something liquid - but not lovely. [1907 February 2, The Chronicle, Adelaide, page 50, column 2:]
  • 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. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • Boiled some cornstalk juice into molasses. [1777 Sept. 13, Manessah Cutler, Journal, s.v.]
  • He really poured on the molasses, charming his audience and changing more than a few votes.
  • ‘You're the cutest thing here,’ whispered Clyde, hugging her fondly.
  • ‘Gee, but you can pour on the molasses, kid, when you want to,’ she called out loud. [1925, Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, volume I, page 127:]
  • ...the mournful molasses of his prose... [1972 Nov. 26, New York Times Book Review, p. 1]
  • Though faster than typing, the daisy wheel is molasses compared to dot matrix printers. [1990, Norman Schreiber, Your Home Office, New York, N.Y.: Perennial Library, →ISBN, page 91:]
  • Of course, time was molasses in the cold months that bracketed that very long year; time was monotony. When all days are the same, memory caves in on itself. [2022, Julia Glass, Vigil Harbor, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 161:]
  • It's worthwhile starting with the lowest-tier plan from your provider. If your internet is molasses, then you might consider an upgrade. [2023 March 3, Shira Ovide, “Four mistakes you’re making that slow down your internet”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2023:]

Etymology

From Portuguese melaços or Spanish melazos, from Late Latin mellacium (“must, honey-sweet thing”), from mel (“honey”) + -āceus (“-aceous”) + -ium, q.v. Some alternative forms derived or influenced by Spanish melaza and French mélasse, conjectured to derive from unattested Late Latin mellacea, from mel + -ācea. See: Portuguese Nouns 'melaços', Spanish Nouns 'melaza', French Nouns 'mélasse'.