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'lasses
colloq. abbreviation of molasses. U.S.
1775in O. E. Winslow Amer. Broadside Verse (1930) 141/1 The 'lasses they eat every day, Would keep an house a winter. 1807Salmagundi 16 May 205 This manufacture is called by the Bostonians lasses candy. 1854M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine xxii. 317 Get along Jack, pokin' your fingers into the 'lasses cup. 1909F. B. Calhoun Miss Minerva 174 Aunt Minerva's in the kitchen right now makin' me a 'lasses custard. 1948Chicago Tribune 14 Mar. vii. 17/2 Now, come spring, it's ‘'lasses time’ right over the border and ‘sap's a-bilin'’. |