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† moˈlass Sc. Obs.
Also molash.
[Assumed sing. form from molasses.]
= molasses 2.
1773Fergusson in Herd Songs (1904) 48 The ignorant ass Who drinks all the evening at burning molass. a1779D. Graham Coalm. Crtship. Writ. 1883 II. 51 Spout ye a mutchkin o' molash in her cheek, ye'll get her mind an' speed the better. 1813G. Bruce Poems 25 The only guid molass has dune, Some drouthie wives it's sent hame soon.
Hence moˈlassed ppl. a., drunk with ‘molass’.
1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 98 note, The common people have got so universally into the habit of drinking this base spirit, that when a porter or labourer is seen reeling along the streets, they say, he has got molassed. |