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sugar¹
- /ˈʃʊɡə/ Australia, UK
- /ˈʃɵɡə/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ˈʃʊɡɚ/ Canada, US
- /ˈʃʉɡəɾ/ Scotland
- /ˈʃʉɡəɻ/ Northern Ireland
Rhymes with -ʊɡə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English sugre, borrowed from Old French çucre, borrowed from Old Italian zucchero, borrowed from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”). Akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”), whence the words crocodile and krokodil are derived. Doublet of jaggery and sucro-.
The verb is from Middle English sugren, from the noun.
noun sugars · shugar
- A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative. To a pound of gooseberries take a pound and a half of double-refined sugar. Clarify the sugar with water, a pint to a pound of sugar, and when the syrup is cold, put the gooseberries single in your preserving pan, put the syrup to them, and set them on a gentle fire.
- Any specific variety of sugar. The experience of sugar planters in Louisiana this year in holding their sugars in warehouse for future sales at better prices has revealed again, as it has done heretofore, the fact that the presence of moisture in the sugars is inimical to their maintaining their standard of quality
- Any of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes. At the end of the second week there were less reducing sugars in the unpruned plants than in the previous week, but those in the pruned plants were the same.
- A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink. He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
- A bowl or other container of sugar. Pass the sugar, please
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A term of endearment.
I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
Similar: babber, babe, precious, bae, baby, babycakes, bubba, bully, buttercup, cabbage, chickabiddy, chickadee
- Affection shown by kisses or kissing. Gimme some sugar, baby.
- Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality. I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
- Diabetes. One respondent said that he had been told by his doctor that he had 'sugar' and diabetes, thus affirming for him the distinctiveness of the two illnesses. The distinction made sense to some of them as the relationship between diabetes and 'sugar' seemed to relate to their experiences of the West Ind
- Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry. Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.
- Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
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Heroin.
Similar: Big H, boy, brown sugar, brown, bujj, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dog food, dope, dugee, henry, heroin
- Money.
- Syntactic sugar. However, this bookkeeping is much less local syntax and sugar.
verb sugars · sugaring · sugared · shugar
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To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
John heavily sugars his coffee.
Similar: sweeten
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To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
Similar: sweeten, sugar-coat
- In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off. To sugar off, I prefer using a kettle that will hold about half a. barrel; and boil over a brisk, steady fire, till on dropping some of the syrup into cold water it will break like glass, then dip it into wooden trays to cool, and when it is grained stir it briskly.
- To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths. Some entomologists assert that it is useless to sugar when ivy is in bloom.
- To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar. You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […]
- To compliment (a person).
- To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.
interjection shugar
- Minced oath of shit. Oh, sugar!
Sugar²
Where it comes from
* As a Hungarian surname, from the noun sugár (“light ray”).
* As a German and Jewish surname, semantic loan from German Zucker (“sugar”).
noun
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radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter S.
Similar: Sierra
proper noun Sugars
- A surname from German
- A surname from Hugarian
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: carbohydrate, saccharide, refined sugar, sugarcane, candy, sweetener, sweetness, sweet, sweeten, beet, peanut, carrot, pumpkin, honey, cabbage, cane
Translations
Every language
noun generic term for sucrose, glucose, fructose, etc
| Español | azúcar |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 당류 dangnyu |
| 日本語 | 糖 tō, 糖類 tōrui |
| 中文 | 糖類 /糖类 tánglèi |
| हिन्दी | शकर śakar, शर्कर śarkar |
| Kiswahili | sukari |
| Português | açúcar |
| Deutsch | Zucker |
| Italiano | zucchero |
| Ελληνικά | σάκχαρο sákcharo, ζάχαρο zácharo |
| Română | glucide |
| Русский | са́хар sáxar |
| Tiếng Việt | đường, chất đường |
noun sucrose from sugar cane or sugar beet used to sweeten food and drink
| Español | azúcar, sacarosa, mishqui |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 설탕 seoltang, 사탕 satang |
| 日本語 | 砂糖 satō |
| 中文 | 糖 táng |
| हिन्दी | चीनी cīnī, शर्करा śarkarā, शक्कर śakkar, मिसरी misrī |
| Kiswahili | sukari |
| Português | açúcar |
| Français | sucre |
| Deutsch | Zucker |
| Italiano | zucchero |
| Ελληνικά | ζάχαρη záchari |
| Română | zahăr |
| Русский | са́хар sáxar |
| Tiếng Việt | đường, chất đường |
| العربية | سُكَّر sukkar |
| עברית | סוכר, סֻכָּר sukár |
noun any of a series of carbohydrates used by organisms to store energy
| Español | azúcar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 糖質 tōshitsu |
| हिन्दी | खाँड khā̃ḍ |
| Kiswahili | sukari |
| Português | açúcar |
| Deutsch | Zucker |
| Ελληνικά | σάκχαρο sákcharo, ζάχαρο zácharo |
| Română | zaharuri, glucide |
| Русский | са́хар sáxar |
| עברית | סוכר, סֻכָּר sukár |
verb to add sugar to, to sweeten
| Español | azucarar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 加甜 jiātián, 加糖 jiātáng |
| Português | açucarar |
| Français | sucrer |
| Deutsch | zuckern |
| Italiano | zuccherare |
| Română | îndulci |
| Русский | са́харить sáxaritʹ, поса́харить posáxaritʹ |
verb to make something seem less unpleasant
| Español | azucarar, endulzar |
|---|---|
| Português | açucarar, suavizar |
| Deutsch | versüßen |
| Italiano | zuccherare |
| Română | îndulci |
| Русский | подсласти́ть podslastítʹ |
intj minced oath
| Español | jolines |
|---|---|
| Português | mkrda, ferca, herfa, merca |
| Français | zut, fichtre, mince |
| Deutsch | Scheibenkleister, Scheibenhonig |
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