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noun
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contrived or unrestrained sentimentality: a movie plot of the most shameless treacle.
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Pharmacology Obsolete. any of various medicinal compounds, formerly used as antidotes for poison.
Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English, variant of triacle antidote < Middle French, Old French < Latin thēriaca < Greek thēriakḗ, noun use of feminine of thēriakós concerning wild beasts, equivalent to thērí(on) wild beast (thḗr wild beast + -ion diminutive suffix) + -akos -ac
1275–1325; Middle English, variant of triacle antidote < Middle French, Old French < Latin thēriaca < Greek thēriakḗ, noun use of feminine of thēriakós concerning wild beasts, equivalent to thērí(on) wild beast (thḗr wild beast + -ion diminutive suffix) + -akos -ac
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Treacly
is always a great word to know.
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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| 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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Word Origin & History
treacle
1340, "medicinal compound, antidote for poison," from O.Fr. triacle "antidote" (c.1200), from V.L. *triacula, from L. theriaca, from Gk. theriake (antidotos) "antidote for poisonous wild animals," from fem. of theriakos "of a wild animal," from therion "wild animal," dim. of ther (gen. theros) "wild
EXPANDanimal," from PIE base *ghwer- "wild" (see fierce). Sense of "molasses" is first recorded 1694; that of "anything too sweet or sentimental" is from 1771. The connection may be from the use of molasses as a laxative, or its use to disguise the bad taste of medicine.
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