long sweetening

noun

A viscous, syrupy sweetener, generally molasses, but sometimes table syrup.

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Meanings

nounlong sweetening (uncountable)
  1. Southern USuncountableA viscous, syrupy sweetener, generally molasses, but sometimes table syrup.

    Reach me some of that long sweetening, honey, she'd say at the breakfast table.

    1989, Lee Smith, Fair and Tender Ladies
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    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

    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.

    1974, John Quincy Wolf, Life in the Leatherwoods

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
molasses
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