long sweetening
long sweetening noun: a viscous, syrupy sweetener, generally molasses, but sometimes table syrup.
Noun
long sweetening (uncountable)
- A viscous, syrupy sweetener, generally molasses, but sometimes table syrup.
- Long Sweetening is its just and proper name, but by Molasses better known to fame.1822, John Davis, The American Mariners: Or, The Atlantic Voyage. A Moral Poem ..., US: Brodie and Dowding, page 162, lines 332-3
- Made our molasses into long sweetening and tapped the sugartrees for short sweetening.1959, Leonard W. Roberts, “Jim Couch, His Family Story”, in Up Cutshin & down Greasy: folkways of a Kentucky mountain family, page 8
Examples of long sweetening in a sentence
- Hurst made the best of the situation and drank his molasses-sweetened coffee with seeming relish, as though he had been raised on long sweetening.1974, John Quincy Wolf, Life in the Leatherwoods:
- Reach me some of that long sweetening, honey, she'd say at the breakfast table.1989, Lee Smith, Fair and Tender Ladies:
Questions about long sweetening
- What does long sweetening mean?
- Long sweetening means a viscous, syrupy sweetener, generally molasses, but sometimes table syrup.
- How do you use long sweetening in a sentence?
- Hurst made the best of the situation and drank his molasses-sweetened coffee with seeming relish, as though he had been raised on long sweetening.
- What part of speech is long sweetening?
- Long sweetening is a noun.
Words near long sweetening in the dictionary
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