What's the difference between mush and treacle?

Mush


Definition:

  • (n.) Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
  • (v. t.) To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Obama doesn't have much to say, and neither does Mitt Romney but after that Libya cock-up his brain is mush and he starts going on about two parent families – what?
  • (2) To be sure, it is suffocating, narrow and on the edge of a descent into a mediocre mush.
  • (3) The roots of mush maternal mortality lie in discrimination agianst women, in terms of legal status and access to education, financial resources and health care, including family planning.
  • (4) 8.29pm BST They are "putting the mush in the brain and the lid on the brain and the brain in the fridge".
  • (5) Hence even though The Friday Times published Mush and Bush during General Musharraf’s regime, it escaped censure.
  • (6) The Friday Times, a weekly from Lahore, has published a series of fictitious satirical diaries over the years: Dear Diary by Benazir Bhutto; Ittefaqnama by Nawaz Sharif (the current prime minister); Mush and Bush, a telephone conversation between General Musharraf and President Bush; Howzzat by Im the Dim (Imran Khan) – all written by the publisher, Jugnu Mohsin.
  • (7) And as I write, he cops a solid whack to the mush in round three.
  • (8) Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook for 40-60 minutes or until the lentils are soft and start to mush, becoming sauce-like.
  • (9) In public life we often hear politicians slipping into management mush.
  • (10) Arguing that the film's promotion of partisan political views was "irremediable" and that it contained scientific inaccuracies and "sentimental mush", Mr Dimmock attempted to get the film totally banned from schools in England.
  • (11) Sherman's work has always been a vibrant mush of ideas.
  • (12) As I was standing, with a sodden piece of cardboard around my neck, slowly turning to mush in the rain, knowing that the pre-sales to the show were nil, I saw one of my former colleagues walk towards me.
  • (13) I knocked out several bestsellers while sitting on the balcony of my old apartment in the middle of Bangkok, but put me in the countryside and my brain turns to mush.
  • (14) We must “stop China’s cyber attacks, stop their territorial expansion into international waters,” stop Russia from “[encountering] mush” and “pushing” with bayonets, make sure Israel isn’t having a sad, cripple Iran with sanctions and ignore everything about climate change because “the greatest threat to future generations is radical Islamic terrorism and we need to do something about it.” The great thing about ignoring science and practicality while threatening to go to war against more than 1.5bn people around the globe is that, if there are any enemy survivors after the bombing stops, they can sail to the port city of Orlando and gawk enviously at all the free people queuing up for their mandatory drug tests atop a natural gas pipeline But don’t sell Walker short on his zero foreign policy experience.
  • (15) The good news, though, "from your point of view", was that "the first few times I opened it up, after having obeyed every single instruction, all there seemed to be was a bit of mush in the bottom."
  • (16) Mush of the data obtained were interpreted as being compatible with the elft atrial volume-receptor hypothesis, but very liggle of the data pertained to left atrial receptors specifically.
  • (17) My God … I watched all 20 minutes of Sarah Palin’s mush-mouthed, meandering speech and analyzed it for you, but first, I’d like to offer up these five quotes.
  • (18) In sitcom after sitcom and movie after movie, and in his other job as a voiceover actor and artist, he has staked a place for himself as perhaps the most aggressively amusing, terrifying, vanity-free and daring of post-Apatow, post-Seinfeld comic actors – an incredibly dependable and omnipresent A-type bully and crybaby with a heart of pure mush.
  • (19) But Labour's answer is a warm, statist mush, wishing good things for everyone, but most of all a powerful state helping grateful citizens.
  • (20) He then lapses into a mush of critical theory about how he assembles his influences.

Treacle


Definition:

  • (n.) A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1.
  • (n.) A sovereign remedy; a cure.
  • (n.) Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses.
  • (n.) A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, and the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For me, Kitson is at his best when ( as the New York Times said of It's Always Right Now) "he seasons the treacle with grit".
  • (2) For the pani pol filling, cook the golden syrup, palm sugar and spices until the treacle is boiling, and the sugar dissolves – approximately five minutes.
  • (3) Serves 8–10 For the sweet pastry 110g butter, softened 135g caster sugar 1 tsp baking powder 225g strong flour, plus extra for dusting A pinch of salt 125ml double cream For the filling 225g golden syrup 50g dark treacle 220ml double cream 75g oatmeal or fresh white breadcrumbs 2 eggs, beaten 1 tbsp lemon juice Extra-thick or clotted cream, to serve 1 For the pastry, cream the butter and sugar together.
  • (4) It wasn't a baked Alaska, a fruit tart, a cream-laden trifle or a steamed treacle sponge.
  • (5) Miss South ( northsouthfood.com ) Serves 4 1kg beef short ribs For the marinade 4cm piece of root ginger, finely grated 1 tbsp maple syrup, honey or treacle 4 tsp Marmite 1 tbsp kecap manis (Malaysian sweet soy sauce) Juice of 1 lime 1 tbsp Chinese five-spice powder 1 Make your marinade by mixing all the ingredients together in a shallow dish: it should be thick enough to stick to the meat, but not gloopy, so add more lime juice if necessary.
  • (6) But some 2,000-year-old treacle brown remains made up of recycled scraps of Egyptian papyrus , torn up to encase the reptile, hide hard evidence of a substantial historical cover-up.
  • (7) Can we talk about Brimstone and Treacle, the vision of a devil ... Ah, Brimstone and Treacle was ... Can I break off for a second?
  • (8) Traditional Sri Lankan pani pol recipes use a palm treacle base, but Kuruvita insists that golden syrup is a great substitute, and that the alarmingly large quantity still applies: "It may seem like a lot, but it's a very dense liquid."
  • (9) Everything in PPE is so laboriously slow, it feels like wading through treacle.
  • (10) Rarely seen in western dress and never in a suit, he is supposed to enjoy a traditional country breakfast of buffalo milk curd and cane sugar treacle.
  • (11) The warm bath of mutualised treacle that swilled around Westminster at the beginning of the week has turned toxic.
  • (12) The days when it goes badly are like wading through treacle, but when it goes well it's like surfing a wave.
  • (13) Honey treacle tart Cook - Ruby Tandoh's honey treacle tart recipe.
  • (14) 2 Briefly beat the treacle or honey into the buttermilk (or yoghurt) and, using a fork, gradually add this mixture into the flour mix until a soft dough is formed.
  • (15) Manchester youngsters who answer with a resounding "no" when asked whether their sporting heros eat chocolate, are astonished when shown a video of City defender Micah Richards' fridge, with a small treacle toffee pudding alongside fruit and vegetables, as a treat for when he has worked hard.
  • (16) Recipe supplied by Helen Graves, helengraves.co.uk Norfolk treacle tart This deeper, lighter version of treacle tart has a subtle hint of lemon.
  • (17) Nevertheless, it was a place I felt I might go to once and one of these days , to have a silver-domed trolley wheeled to the table – the dome pushed back dramatically to reveal the joint, the beef to be expertly sliced by the carver – and then to think about ordering a treacle sponge.
  • (18) Meanwhile, make the filling: mix the golden syrup, treacle, double cream, oatmeal and eggs together, then stir in the lemon juice.
  • (19) Here and there great piles of glistening, treacle-dark sludge have apparently been dredged out.
  • (20) I fear that our interests are about to be sacrificed.” Previous UN climate change forums, where dreary jargon often pours treacle over any sense of urgency, have been enlivened by entreaties from Pacific island leaders.