sugar
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā)
Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.
Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor.
Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.
Old Italian zuccherobor.
Old French çucrebor.
Middle English sugre
English sugar
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.
Inflected forms:
form: sugars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shugar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sugars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sugaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sugared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sugared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shugar
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: shugar
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
There appears to be no prospect of success in attempting to combat the crisis by international arrangement, and any improvement in sugar prices can only be looked for from a diminution of the production, either as a consequence of deficient crops, or of a reduction in manufacture.
Even in extreme cases such as chemical pollution in the Florida Everglades from heavily subsidized sugar farming, strong regulations are routinely blocked by industry.
gloss: Any specific variety of sugar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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
gloss: Any of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
Generally speaking, plants have a much greater variety of sugars and linkages than animal tissues have.
The major free sugars in plants are the monosaccharides, glucose and fructose (and the disaccharide sucros), together with traces of xylose, rhamnose and galactose.
Although H. bertonii relies on scale insects to prepare its parasitism site on plants, it directly absorbs and utilizes plant sugars.
gloss: A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
“A slice of lemon and two sugars, please.” “You needn't have said that. I know how you like your tea. I know how you like everything.”
Skim milk, two sugar.
Then there are the coffees, one with two sweeteners and no milk, one with one sweetener and milk, one with three sugars and a dash of milk, one with one sugar and lots of milk and finally her Uncle Samad who says that anything is fine.
gloss: A bowl or other container of sugar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pass the sugar, please
gloss: A term of endearment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
Sugar, ah honey honey / You are my candy girl / And you've got me wanting you
gloss: Affection shown by kisses or kissing.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Gimme some sugar, baby.
gloss: Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
pos: noun
tags: Southern
US
slang
uncountable
examples: I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
There are depths and heights of beauty in him beyond tears - but there is no sugar, not even any honey.
The crossdresser is showing the desire to be "sugar and spice" through feminine clothing and through the expression of feminine feelings.
Because of Patrick's mannerisms, the players teased him by referring to him as “Sweetness” or saying that he had “sugar” in his pants.
gloss: Diabetes.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: 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 Indies, where 'sugar' was believed to be rare and diabetes common.
The veterinarian said his real problem was that he had sugar, and not to concentrate on the problem with his eyes.
Don't you love it when you start a new Disease - the pamphlets, the prescriptions, the attention? And the past turning ironic, cloudy, as if you'd added a chemical - my house painter saying he has sugar, reminding me of my mother demanding the sweet drool from every baby.
The doctor told me I had sugar and would have to take pills.
The memorable event was watching my father test urine, his or that of sundry other folks who had “sugar”, as diabetes was known in the rural hills of Jamaica where I grew up.
gloss: Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.
Mons. Lemery is of Opinion that Sweetness proceeds from a close Mixture of an Acid with a Sulphur, or with an Oyl that temperates and corrects it; he supports his Conjecture by the instance of Sugar of Saturn, so called from its Sweetness, which is Lead, a Metal insipid in its self, but very Sulphureous, dissolved by an Acid.
The fluor acid, the acid of sugar, of phosphorus, and vitriol, separate magnelia from the acid of arsenic; but the acid of tartar, united with arsenicated magnesia, is generally found to compose a triple salt.
Sugar of milk is now produced by partly chemical means from milk-whey, the product being about two and a half pounds per hundred pounds of whey.
The association of the heavenly bodies with known metals and also with human organs and destinies goes back to ancient Chaldea, the land of astrologers. In Chaucer’s words: ‘The seven bodies eek, lo hear anon. Sol gold is, and Luna silver we declare; Mars yron, Mercurie is quyksilver; Saturnian leed; and Jubitur is tyn, and Venus coper, by my fathers kyn.’ […] Corresponding names were bestowed upon salts of these metals by the alchemists, and some of them have persisted down to the present day. Some examples are lunar caustic (silver nitrate); vitriol of Venus (copper sulphate); sugar of Saturn (lead acetate); and vitriol of Mars, or Martial vitriol (ferrous sulphate).
gloss: Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Heroin.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: Syntactic sugar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: However, this bookkeeping is much less local syntax and sugar.
gloss: To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: John heavily sugars his coffee.
See, I've put sugar-plums on his coat for fancy buttons, sugared his shirt-frill, and put on a red almond to his hat-front.
"There spoke the real British scorn," she said, sugaring her tea, "the fine British contempt for every other nation."
Moreover, the residents recalled that the aristocrat's pet canary had become like a personal retainer, waking his master in the morning and sugaring his drink.
gloss: To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
He also published the "Weekly Recorder," an indefinite title, which was his way of sugaring what soon became in the region where it was published, Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, a very bitter pill.
She shook her head sadly at him. "No, it won't do, Arthur. I'm not in a mood to be sugared."
But step by step, aided by Claude Morin's arguments, Lévesque had led the party through the process of sugaring what he saw as the pill of independence.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
regional
examples: 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.
A long time ago my grandmother and I used to boil maple sap. When she sugared off, I stood there.
During the spring in Quebec and Ontario, maple syrup is harvested, or "sugared off," a process which is usually celebrated as a social event.
gloss: To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
pos: verb
examples: Some entomologists assert that it is useless to sugar when ivy is in bloom.
The latter are best taken by "sugaring" — painting patches of mixed beer and sugar on a series of tree trunks, and making several rounds at twilight with a lantern and a cyanide bottle.
Sugaring attracts some species of moth that do not readily come to light.
gloss: To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […]
Sure, you could sugar the latter to look like the former (effectively implementing closures as objects), but it seems simpler to just allow the former.
gloss: To compliment (a person).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.
pos: verb
gloss: Minced oath of shit.
pos: intj
examples: Oh, sugar!
"Oh, sugar! I suppose that's so," reflected Tobias, filling his pipe.
But they do not even hope for such a thing in '08, and fear far worse: Sister Suzanne Thibault, a lifelong Republican so mild she shouts, “Oh, sugar!” when annoyed, posits that if Hillary Clinton were nominated, “She'd get killed, literally assassinated. We have too many right-wing people out there who would do that."
“Oh, sugar.” His room was empty.
Derived words: 10x sugar
acid of sugar
acorn sugar
ambered sugar
amino sugar
aminosugar
anhydro sugar
anhydrosugar
anhydrous sugar
animal sugar
antisugar
aphis-sugar
arsenosugar
a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down
as sweet as sugar
azasugar
azidosugar
baker's sugar
banded sugar ant
Barbados sugar
barley sugar
barley-sugar
bar sugar
bastard sugar
beechwood sugar
beetroot sugar
beet sugar
beet-sugar
berry sugar
besugar
birch sugar
black sugar
blanch sugar
blood sugar
blown sugar
boiled sugar
booger sugar
brain sugar
bromosugar
brown sugar
burnt sugar
candied sugar
candi sugar
candy sugar
cane sugar
cane-sugar
caramelised sugar
caramelized sugar
caramel sugar
caster sugar
castor sugar
CDP-sugar
centrifugal sugar
chitosugar
chlorosugar
cinnamon sugar
clarified sugar
clayed sugar
coarse sugar
coffee sugar
colored sugar crystals
compound sugar
compressible sugar
confectioners sugar
confectioner's sugar
confectioners' sugar
corn sugar
corn sugar syrup
cracked sugar
crashed sugar
crude sugar
crushed sugar
crystalline sugar
crystallisable sugar
crystallizable sugar
crystallised sugar
crystallized sugar
crystal sugar
cube sugar
culinary sugar
cytidine diphosphosugar
date sugar
date-sugar
dehydrosugar
demerara sugar
deoxysugar
deoxy sugar alcohol
deoxy sugar
desoxy sugar
desugar
diabetes sugar
diabetic sugar
dideoxysugar
double-refined sugar
double sugar
dTDP-sugar
English sugar
essence of sugar
fasting blood sugar
feathered sugar
female sugar
fluid sugar
fluorosugar
flying sugar
form sugar
free sugar
fruit sugar
fruit-sugar
galactosugar
gelatin sugar
granular sugar
granulated sugar
grape sugar
grape-sugar
green sugar
hail sugar
halosugar
hard sugar
heart sugar
heavy sugar
hepatic sugar
high sugar
horse sugar
icing sugar
iminosugar
inverted sugar
invert sugar
iodosugar
kitchen sugar
lead-sugar
lead sugar
licorice sugar
liposugar
liquid sugar
liver-sugar
loaf sugar
loaf-sugar
low sugar
lump of sugar
lump sugar
made of sugar
magic sugar
male sugar
malt sugar
malt-sugar
manna sugar
maple sugar
maple-sugar
milk sugar
milk-sugar
mill white sugar
modified Sheather's sugar flotation method
moist sugar
monosugar
mountain-ash sugar
Mount Sugarloaf
multisugar
muscle sugar
muscovado sugar
mushroom sugar
natural sugar
neither sugar nor salt
nest sugar
nest-sugar
nibbed sugar
nib sugar
nitro sugar
nitrosugar
non-sugar
nonsugar
not made of sugar or salt
nucleoside-diphosphate sugar
oil sugar
oligosugar
palm sugar
palm-sugar
pearled sugar
pearl sugar
pectin sugar
perilla sugar
phosphosugar
pine sugar
polyisoprenyl phosphate sugar
polysugar
potato sugar
potato-sugar
pounded sugar
powdered sugar
powder sugar
preserving sugar
pretty please with sugar on top
pseudosugar
pulled sugar
pulverized sugar
raw sugar
reducing sugar
refined sugar
refining sugar
refuse sugar
residual sugar
rimming sugar
RNA sugar
rock sugar
sanding sugar
Schardinger sugar
sifted sugar
simple sugar
soft sugar
sorghum sugar
specific soluble sugar
spun sugar
stamped sugar
starch sugar
store sugar
strained sugar
strike of sugar
sugar-acarus
sugar acid
Sugar Act
sugar alcohol
sugar aldehyde
sugarally
sugar almond
sugar-almond
sugar and honey
Sugar and Molasses Act
sugar and spice
sugar and spice and everything nice
sugar-ant
sugar ant
sugar apple
sugar-apple
sugar aquatint
sugar-babe
sugar baby
sugar-baby
sugar bag
sugarbag
sugar-bag
sugar-bakehouse
sugar-baker
sugar baker
sugar-bakery
sugar band
sugar basin
sugar bean
sugar-bean
sugar bear
sugar beet
sugar belly
sugar berg
sugar berry
sugar-berry
sugarberry
sugar-birch
sugar bird
sugar-bird
sugarbird
sugar block
sugar bomb
sugar boogers
sugar bowl
sugar-box
sugar-bread
sugar bro
sugar brother
sugar bush
sugar-bush
sugarbush
sugar-butter sauce
sugar buzz
sugar-cake
sugar camp
sugar-camp
sugar candian
sugar-candian
sugar-candied
sugar candy
sugar-candy
sugar cane
sugar-cane
sugarcane
sugar card
sugar-caster
sugar cataract
sugar chain
sugar charcoal
sugar-chest
Sugar City
sugar coat
sugar coated
sugarcoated
sugar-coated
sugar-coat
sugarcoat
sugar-cone
sugar cone
sugar cookie
sugar core
sugar corn
sugarcraft
sugar cream pie
Sugar Creek
Sugarcreek
sugar-creeper
Sugar Crisp
sugar-crusher
sugar crust
sugar cube
sugar-cube
sugar-cured
sugar daddy
sugar dating
sugar diabetes
sugar-disease
sugar down
sugar-eater
sugar ester
sugar-free
sugarfree
sugarful
sugar fungus
sugar-garden
sugargerry
sugar glass
sugar glider
sugar grass
sugar-grass
Sugar Grove
sugar grove
sugar gum
sugar-gum
sugar hackberry
sugar high
Sugar Hill
sugarholic
sugar house
sugar-house
sugarhouse
sugar-icing liver
sugar indigestion
sugar in one's tank
sugarish
Sugar Island
sugar kelp
Sugar Land
Sugarland Run
sugarleaf
sugarless
sugar-like
sugarlike
sugar-lime
sugar lips
sugar loaf
sugar-loaf
sugarloaf
sugar-louse
sugar louse
sugar lump
sugar-lump
sugarly
sugarmaker
sugarmaking
sugar mama
sugar mamma
sugar momma
sugar mummy
sugar-man
sugarman
sugar maple
sugar-maple
sugar-meat
sugar melon
sugar-melon
sugar mill
sugar-mill
sugar-millet
sugar mimic
sugar mite
sugar-mite
sugar mommy
Sugar Mountain
sugar mouse
sugar nib
sugar nip
sugar nippers
sugar nips
sugar-non-specific nuclease
Sugar Notch
sugar of acorns
sugar of Alisaunder
sugar of Babylon
sugar of Barbary
sugar of Candy
sugar of Cipre
sugar of flesh
sugar of iron
sugar of lead
sugar of Marrokes
sugar of milk
sugar of muscle
sugar of Saturn
sugar of steel
sugar on snow
sugar-on-snow
sugar orchard
sugar-orchard
sugar out
sugar palm
sugar paper
sugar-paper
sugar parent
sugar paste
sugar pea
sugar-pear
sugar pease
sugar-pellet
sugar-penide
sugar-phosphatase
sugar phosphate
sugar pie
sugarpie
sugar-pie
sugar pill
sugar pimp
sugar pine
sugar-pine
sugar plantation
sugar-plate
sugar plum
sugar-plum
sugarplum
sugar pucker
sugar puff
Sugar Puffs
sugar-pumpkin
sugar push
sugar quartz
sugar rag
sugar-reed
sugar-refiner
sugar refinery
sugar-refinery
sugar-refining
sugar report
sugar residue
Sugar River
sugar-roll
sugar-roset
sugar royal
sugar rush
sugar sack
sugar sand
sugar scoop
sugar-sensitivity
sugar shack
sugar shanty
sugar shell
sugar sickness
sugar sifter
sugar skull
sugar snap
sugar snap pea
sugar snow
sugar-snuff
sugar soap
sugar-sop
sugar sorghum
sugar-spar
sugar-spirit
sugar spoon
sugar squirrel
sugar stick
sugarstick
sugar substitute
sugar sumac
sugar-sweet
sugar syrup
sugar-teat
sugar test
sugar thermometer
sugartime
sugartits
sugar tit
sugar-tit
sugar tongs
sugar tree
sugar-tree
sugar trough
sugar tumor
sugar tumour
sugar up
Sugar Valley
sugar vase
sugar-vinegar
sugar walls
sugar-wash
sugar water
sugar-weather
sugar weed
sugar-wood
sugar-work
sugarworks
sugar-worm
sugar-wrack
sugary
superfine sugar
superior sugar
sure as sugar
sweet as sugar
syntactic sugar
table sugar
threshold sugar
triple sugar iron agar
true sugar
turbinado sugar
uncrystallisable sugar
uncrystallizable sugar
unrefined sugar
urine sugar
vanilla sugar
white sugar
wood sugar
wood-sugar
yellow sugar
sugar honey ice tea
oversugar
sugared
sugarer
sugaring
sugar off
sugar the pill
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: շաքար
roman: šakʻar
lang: Bulgarian
word: за́хар
roman: záhar
lang: Catalan
word: sucre
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 糖類 /糖类
roman: tánglèi
lang: Czech
word: cukr
lang: Danish
word: sukker
lang: Finnish
word: sokeri
lang: German
word: Zucker
lang: Greek
word: σάκχαρο
roman: sákcharo
lang: Greek
word: ζάχαρο
roman: zácharo
lang: Hindi
word: शकर
roman: śakar
lang: Hindi
word: शर्कर
roman: śarkar
lang: Irish
word: siúcra
lang: Italian
word: zucchero
lang: Japanese
word: 糖
roman: tō
lang: Japanese
word: 糖類
roman: tōrui
lang: Javanese
word: gula
lang: Javanese
word: gendhis
lang: Korean
word: 당류
roman: dangnyu
lang: Central Kurdish
word: شهکر
roman: şekir
lang: Latgalian
word: cukrys
lang: Latvian
word: cukurs
lang: Māori
word: huka
lang: Marathi
word: शर्करा
roman: śarkarā
lang: Navajo
word: áshįįh łikan
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sukker
lang: Persian
word: شکر
roman: šekar
lang: Polish
word: cukier
lang: Portuguese
word: açúcar
lang: Romanian
word: glucide
lang: Russian
word: са́хар
roman: sáxar
lang: Scots
word: succar
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: siùcar
lang: Slovene
word: sladilo
lang: Spanish
word: azúcar
lang: Swahili
word: sukari
lang: Swedish
word: socker
lang: Turkish
word: şeker
lang: Vietnamese
word: đường
lang: Vietnamese
word: chất đường
lang: Welsh
word: siwgr