brown sugar vs treacle

brown sugar

noun
  • Refined sugar to which molasses has been added. 

  • An attractive black woman. 

  • Heroin. 

  • Sugar which has been only partially refined and still contains molasses. 

treacle

noun
  • A syrupy byproduct of sugar refining; molasses or golden syrup. 

  • Sweetheart (from treacle tart). 

  • Cloying sentimental speech. 

verb
  • To apply treacle to a surface, so as to catch flies or moths, etc. 

How often have the words brown sugar and treacle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )