treacle• They were buying Eccles cakes and treacletart and currantbuns and iced tarts with bright-red cherries on top.• As he took it off he remembered the sausage and treacle tart in his pocket.• The output is an eviltreacle, black and vile.• They pour into the backstage car park like expensivetreacle and come to a halt at the crack of a whip.• But it's like digging in treacle - you get nowhere.• It is a socially conscious film that does not turn into treacle.• This has been a duff year for him: the runs have flowed like treacle, and DameFortune has turned sour.• It was like wading through treacle just to order a meal.• Her hair and spectacles were plastered in white treacle.
Origintreacle
(1300-1400)Old Frenchtriacle, from Latintheriaca, from Greektheriake“cure for a poisonous bite”, from therion“wild animal”