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A sticky, gooey mess resulting from mixing various ingredients, especially sweets or honey. It refers to turning something into a shapeless blob or piling things up until they become a single, stuck-together lump (melcocha is also the name for a traditional type of handmade taffy).
Be careful with those candies in the bag because they will melt in the heat and turn into one big melcocha.
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A traditional, very stretchy candy made by boiling panela (unrefined cane sugar) until it reaches a chewy, taffy-like texture. It is very common in the Andean regions, particularly in the town of Baños, where artisans manually stretch the hot sugar paste on wooden hooks.
Remember to buy some white melcochas when you pass through the Ambato bus terminal.
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A hot and sticky treat made from boiled honey, similar to a stretchy honey flavored taffy or gum. (Melcocha is a traditional artisanal candy in Panama made from honey or sugarcane syrup).
A: Give Maria a little bit of melcocha. B: Oh, yes, please. It is so good.
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A traditional, very sticky and elastic candy made from panela (unrefined cane sugar). It is essentially a handmade taffy that is pulled and stretched until it reaches a signature chewy, gummy texture.
I bought some melcochas on the road and almost lost a filling from chewing on them.
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Used to describe someone who is overly affectionate, mushy, or nauseatingly sweet. It refers to couples whose constant public displays of affection feel suffocating or cheesy to others. (Melcocha is a type of thick, sticky taffy candy.)
Good grief, you two! Stop being so melcochas already, you are going to make us all sick from the sweetness.
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An adjective for someone who is excessively mushy, sappy, or lovey-dovey. It usually refers to couples who are very clingy and display intense affection (melcocha is a type of sweet, sticky taffy).
Those two have been really melcocha since they started dating, they do not even let go of each other to eat.
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A thick, sticky syrup made from boiled honey or sugar. In slang, it refers to a person or couple who is being overly affectionate, mushy, or sappy. (This refers to a traditional taffy-like candy whose gooey sweetness is a metaphor for lovey-dovey behavior).
Like, it is a melcocha.
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A weird thing or an unidentified, messy concoction of food (originally referring to a type of thick, sticky honey taffy).
Sonia made a melcocha and when she bit into it, her tooth came out.
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A mixture of various food items or portions of food mashed together to form a single, mushy mass.
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