| treacle (ˈtriːkəl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (Brit) Also called: black treacle a dark viscous syrup obtained during the refining of sugar |
| 2. | (Brit) another name for golden syrup |
| 3. | anything sweet and cloying |
| 4. | obsolete any of various preparations used as an antidote to poisoning |
| [C14: from Old French triacle, from Latin thēriaca antidote to poison] | |
| 'treacly | |
| —adj | |
| 'treacliness | |
| —n | |
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |