English
rfv
Noun
en-noun|-
- context|US|_|Midwest A viscous, syrupy sweetener, generally molasses, but sometimes table syrup.
#*1974 John Quincy Wolf, Life in the Leatherwoods
#*:Mr. 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.
#*1989: Lee Smith, Fair and Tender Ladies
#*:Reach me some of that long sweetening, honey, she'd say at the breakfast table.
See also
short sweetening
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