| 单词 |
treacly |
| 释义 |
treacly, a.|ˈtriːklɪ|
[f. treacle n. + -y.]
Resembling treacle in quality or appearance; having the sweetness or sticky consistence of treacle; also fig. characterized by excessive sweetness: cloyingly sweet; sugared, honeyed.
1733Shaw Chem. Lect. xi. (1755) 218 A proper, or rich, syrupy, or treacly Substance. 1800W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. X. 317 It bestows..even on novelty of thought, a flat featureless mien, an insipid treacly sameness,..very unfavourable to impression. 1837T. Hood in Mem. (1860) I. 159 Whose book..although so treacley..does not please the natives. 1866R. M. Ferguson Electr. (1870) 243 India⁓rubber..some specimens of it having become treacly. 1930J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement iv. 176 The organ was shaking out cascades of treacly sound. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) i. 26 A doomed Sodom dancing its heart out To treacly tunes. 1980S. Brett Dead Side of Mike xiii. 143 Treacly, undistinguished music.
Hence ˈtreacliness, treacly quality or condition.
1884Nature 22 May 89/1 The property of viscosity or treaclyness possessed more or less by all fluids is the general influence conducive to steadiness. |
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