/ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)/, /ˈʃʊɡɚ/
Origin* As a Hungarian surname, from the noun sugár (“light ray”).
* As a German and Jewish surname, semantic loan from German Zucker (“sugar”).
- uncountableSucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
“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 pr”
“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 producti”
“Even in extreme cases such as chemical pollution in the Florida Everglades from heavily subsidized sugar farming, strong regulations are routinely blocked by industry.”
- countableA 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”
- countableAny of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
“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.”
- countableA small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
“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.”
- countableA term of endearment.
“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”
- slang, uncountableAffection shown by kisses or kissing.
“Gimme some sugar, baby.”
- Southern, US, slang, uncountableEffeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
“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.”
- informal, uncountableDiabetes.
“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 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 sug”
- countable, dated, uncountableAnything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
“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 o”
“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 tri”
- countable, uncountableCompliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
- US, slang, uncountableHeroin.
- US, dated, slang, uncountableMoney.
- countable, uncountableSyntactic sugar.
“However, this bookkeeping is much less local syntax and sugar.”
- radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter S.
- transitiveTo add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
“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."”
- transitiveTo make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
“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."”
- Canada, US, regionalIn 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 ”
“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.”
- 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.”
“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.”
- transitiveTo rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
“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.”
- transitiveTo compliment (a person).
- To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.
- Minced oath of shit.
“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”
Formssugars(plural) · shugar(alternative, obsolete) · sugars(present, singular, third-person) · sugaring(participle, present) · sugared(participle, past) · sugared(past) · Sugars(plural)