sugarn.
/ˈʃʊɡə/, U.S. /ˈʃʊɡər/ 1. † c. = sugar cane n. Obsolete.
a. A sweet crystalline substance, white when pure, obtained from a great variety of plant juices, but chiefly from those of the sugar cane and sugar-beet, and forming an important article of human food.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar
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α. Middle English zuker, Middle English -ur, zucur, -er, zuccor, zukre, couker, Middle English zucre, zuccary; Middle English zugere, -ure.In medieval Latin documents it is often impossible to determine whether a form is intended for Latin or for latinized English.
β. Middle English sucere, -ore, suker, ( seukere), Middle English sucre, Middle English sucure, sukyr.1289–90 in J. Webb Househ. Expenses R. de Swinfield (1853) 116 In .xix. lī sucar, .viij.s. .viij. d. ob... Item in .xxix. libr sucur in duobus panibus .xvj. s. xj. d.] 1308 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 4 In 1 libra de sucore, 9d.1309–10 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 6 3li. de sucere.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 83 Þet is þe zuete sucre and of guod ssmak.a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 32 Such sucre mon secheþ þat saneþ men sone.1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 222 Whan venym melleth with the Sucre And mariage is mad for lucre.14.. Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 122 (MSS. B R) Sucre.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 484/1 Sukyr, zucura.γ. Middle English sugure, Middle English–1500s sugur, sugre, Middle English–1600s suger, Middle English–1500s sugour, (Middle English suigur, Middle English–1500s surger (?), Middle English sewger, sugyr, -or, sogyr, suggir, 1500s sugare, -ir, suggur, suuger, 1500s–1700s suggar, 1600s shugar), 1500s– sugar.1334–5 Abingdon Rolls (Camden) 4 Item pro surger viij s. x d.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 312 The nyneth is swete to þe soule, no sugre is swettere.c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 606 Yeue hem sugre [v.rr. sugere, sucre, suger], hony, breed and Milk.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xvii. 76 Swetter þan sugur or hony.1440–1 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 78 Item 1 layf de suggir.1440–1 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 78 Di. 1 laff de Sogyr.1491 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 211 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3218) LXIV. 1 6 loves of sewger, 10s.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 176 Sucre, sugar.1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 36v The pouder of it [sc. liverwurt] taken wyth suggar.1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe ii. sig. C2v The warres in Barbary make Suger at such an excessiue rate.1682 J. Wilding Acct. Bk. in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 255 For shugar..00 00 02.1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 73 The like effect is produced by dropping oils on suggar.1788 W. Cowper Pity Poor Afr. 6 How could we do without sugar and rum? Especially sugar, so needful we see?1898 G. B. Shaw Widowers' Houses in Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant 8 Do you take sugar, Mr Cokane?δ. Scottish Middle English–1600s succour, 1700s– succar, sucker, (Middle English sucur, 1500s sukkoure, suckar, succur(e, 1600s sucre, 1700s soukar).1495 Ledger A. Halyburton (1867) 41 12 li. sucur valans,..½ sucur lacrissye.1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 284 viij pund and x vnce of succour.c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xvii. 114 Spicis eirbis drogis gummis & succur for to mak exquisit electuars.1629 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule (new ed.) 958 (Jam.) Poyson, confected with sucre, is moste piercing and deadlie.1644 Row Extr. in Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) p. xxvi Two of them..misbehavit themselfes..in drinking wine, sek, and succour.1786 R. Burns Poems 25 Just a wee drap sp'ritual burn in, An' gusty sucker!1852 J. Fraser King James V in Poet. Chimes iii. ii Neeps, like sucker, wha'll buy neeps?c1299 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 494 Zuker Roch.
c1299 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 495 Zuker Marrokes.
c1310 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 510 In 3li. et di. de Couker de Rupe. In 31li. de Couker de Marrok.
1340 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 37 In di. li. zukur emp., 3d.
1364 in Exch. Rolls Scotl. II. 182 Per empcionem 434 librarum, cum quartario, zucure, xlij li. xviij d.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 714 Hec zucurca [sic], zugure.
1419 Lib. Alb. Rolls 1st Ser. 224 Kark de zucre, xij d.
a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 68 Recipe cynamom [etc.]..to which be done zuccary euenly.
b. plural. Kinds of sugar; also, †cargoes or stocks of sugar.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [noun] > kinds of sugar
sugars1570
the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar > kinds of sugar
sugars1570
1570 Act 13 Eliz. c. 25 §8 The said Acte..is not meant to extend..to any Wynes Oyles Sugers.
1607 J. Harington tr. Englishmans Doctor Ad Libr. sig. A4 Nor of Barbary, Those luscious Canes, where our rich Sugars lie.
1695 Disc. Duties on Sugars 4 Every one that hath been acquainted with the Importing Sugars.
1714 B. Mandeville Fable Bees i. 49 Decio got five hundred Pounds by his Sugars.
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Proc. E. India House 58/2 Sugars manufactured in India.
1847 Simmonds's Colonial Mag. 11 413 Sugars had evidently risen.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > plants yielding sugar or syrup > [noun] > sugar-cane
reeda1398
canamell?a1425
sugar cane1568
sugar1593
sugar-reed1718
plant cane1721
sorgho1760
cane1781
ribbon cane1803
riband cane1811
imphee1857
sweet sorghum1859
sweet sorgho1861
sugar-grass1862
plant1866
broom corn1886
1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries sig. N3 In Madera, Cyprus and other Islandes, where the Sugars doe grow.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 111 The country abounds in Sugars, which they make great and many uses of.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xiii. 159 I have not told you..that Sugar is a grass, of the first division.
d. colloquial. A lump or teaspoonful of sugar.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar > quantity added to tea or coffee
lace1689
spoon1922
sugar1962
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xxiii. 150 He poured coffee into a black wedgwood cup and put four sugars in. ‘Raise the sugar count,’ he said.
1978 C. MacLeod Rest you Merry (1979) ii. 18 ‘Why don't I make us a cup of coffee?’ ‘Great idea. Three sugars in mine.’
1982 Sunday Tel. 18 Apr. 8/6 How many sugars they were allowed in their tea.
2. transferred and figurative uses, phrases, etc.
a. figurative or in figurative context: Sweetness; also, sweet or honeyed words.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun]
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sweetnessc900
sootnessc1000
unloathfulnessc1350
sugarc1374
pleasancec1395
agreeability?c1400
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dulceness?1526
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Gemütlichkeit1892
sweetness and light1927
the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > in particular style or evoking particular emotion
sugarc1374
pathos1579
satire1606
consolatory1654
sillyism1709
unction1815
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1194 To whom this tale sucre [v.rr. seukere, sugre] be or soot.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 218 Galle in his breste and sugre in his face.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 2794 Þin hony mouþe þat doth with sugre flete.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) II. 160 Galle under sugre hath doubyl bitternesse.
c1530 Crt. Love 542 That they be bound by nature to disceive, and sugre strewe on gall.
1713 S. Sewall Diary 22 Oct. (1973) II. 730 Mr. Noyes..said Love was the Sugar to sweeten every Condition in the married Relation.
1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang (1897) Sugar,..(Amer.) flattery, praise, gammon.
1895 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 398 She was all sugar and honey.
b. Proverbial and allusive phrase to be neither sugar nor salt, not to be made of sugar or salt: not likely to be injured by a wetting; not afraid of wet weather.
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the world > action or operation > safety > perfectly safe [phrase] > not likely to be injured by wetting
sugara1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 27 Honestie coupled to beautie, is to haue Honie a sawce to Sugar . View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxvi. 251 Sugar never marred sawce.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy i Sure he's neither sugar nor salt, that he'd melt.
1855 T. Carlyle in E. FitzGerald Lett. & Literary Remains (1889) I. 235 I persist in believing the weather will clear,..at any rate I am not made of sugar or of salt.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xv. 254 I am made neither of sugar nor salt... Do you call this rain?
c. slang. Money.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
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spense?c1225
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gooda1325
moneya1325
cattlec1330
muckc1330
reasona1382
pecunyc1400
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argentc1500
gelta1529
Mammon1539
ale silver1541
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the sinews of war1560
sterling1565
lour1567
will-do-all1583
shell1591
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quinyie1596
brass1597
pecuniary1604
dust1607
nomisma1614
countera1616
cross and pilea1625
gingerbreada1625
rhinoa1628
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stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
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L. S. D.1835
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California1851
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ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
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the shiny1856
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sugar1862
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ooftish1877
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oil1885
oof1885
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Jack1890
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bees and honey1892
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mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
jingle1906
doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
1862 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 648 We have just touched for a rattling stake of sugar at Brum.
1884 Punch 11 Oct. 180/1 Political Picnics mean sugar to them as is fly to wot's wot.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 308 He's always got the sugar, consequence he always gets the worth of his money.
d. slang (originally U.S.). A narcotic drug: spec. (a) heroin; brown sugar (see quot. 1974); (b) LSD (taken on a lump of sugar).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s)
opiate?a1425
dope1886
hop1887
Peter1899
quill1916
junk1921
narcotic1926
stuff1929
mojo1935
sugar1935
gear1954
narco1954
sauce1975
opie1992
Scooby Snack1996
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > morphine, cocaine, or heroin > heroin
heroin1898
junk1921
dynamite1924
schmeck1932
smack1942
horse1950
gear1954
boy1955
sugar1956
chiva1964
scag1967
hoss1968
scat1970
P-funk1982
black tar1983
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > hallucinogenic drug > LSD > capsule or tablet
tab1961
mike1967
sugar1967
ticket1969
microdot1971
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 116/2 Sugar and salt, poisonous habit forming drugs; any of the white narcotics.
1951 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 27 Mar. 4/1 Dope in general was ‘cement’..‘sugar’, etc.
1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It iii. 27 You'll dream about the sugar yet. You'll wake up hot for it. No joypopping, hear? Stay off, kid.
1967 M. M. Glatt et al. Drug Scene in Great Brit. Gloss. 116 Sugar, dose of LSD on sugar lump.
1973 ‘K. Royce’ Spider Underground viii. 118 We sat in a corner of this dark, smoke-infested hole that smelled of..third-rate pot... ‘What a place to pick,’ I complained. ‘It's the sort of dump the fuzz raid three times a week.’.. ‘Relax, man. They hit us last night... That makes it safe, man. I'm not carrying sugar or anything. I don't touch the stuff.’
1974 Indonesian Observer 26 July 3/2 French police said this year they have seized 50·6 pounds (23 kilograms) of ‘brown sugar’ in the suitcases of 13 Chinese arriving at Orly airport enroute to Amsterdam. The brown sugar is 33 per cent heroin diluted with 60 per cent caffein and strychnine.
1978 D. MacKenzie Raven settles Score (1979) 32 No more Hong Kong brown sugar. We'll be out of business.
1979 Observer 25 Nov. 4/1 Detectives call them the ‘sugar people’ and they are young, rich and blue-blooded. They are also heroin addicts. It is in an ironic double reference to the ‘sugar daddy’ parents and to the expensive white powder they inject or sniff.
e. colloquial. A term of endearment. Also in combination, as sugar-babe, sugar-baby, sugar-pie, etc.
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the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun]
darlingc888
belamy?c1225
culver?c1225
dearc1230
sweetheartc1290
heartc1300
sweetc1330
honeya1375
dovec1386
jewelc1400
birdc1405
cinnamonc1405
honeycombc1405
lovec1405
wantonc1450
mulling?a1475
daisyc1485
crowdy-mowdy?a1513
honeysop?a1513
powsowdie?a1513
suckler?a1513
foolc1525
buttinga1529
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heartikin1540
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nyletc1557
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lover1573
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pretty1616
old thinga1625
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pinkaninny1696
nug1699
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puss1753
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dovey1769
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lovely1791
ducky1819
toy1822
acushla1825
alanna1825
treat1825
amigo1830
honey child1832
macushla1834
cabbage1840
honey-bunch1874
angel pie1878
m'dear1887
bach1889
honey baby1895
prawn1895
hon1896
so-and-so1897
cariad1899
pumpkin1900
honey-bun1902
pussums1912
snookums1919
treasure1920
wogger1922
amico1929
sugar1930
baby cake1949
angel cake1951
lamb-chop1962
petal1974
bae2006
1930 Dial. Notes 6 85 Sugar-pie,..common term of endearment.
1930 J. H. Combs in B. A. Botkin Folk-Say v. 245 A-settin' on the ice till my feet got cold, sugar-babe.
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xxvi. 455 Scarlett said gratefully: ‘Thank you, Sugarbaby.’
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid vi. 68 When am I going to see you again, sugar?
1944 L. A. G. Strong Director xvii. 135 See here, sugar. I'll take care of you.
1951 S. Spender World within World i. 26 No, you don't, sugar, you don't go out with your cold.
1962 J. D. MacDonald Girl vii. 87 What you do for a living, sugar?
1976 P. Flower Crisscross i. 10 ‘What's funny, sugar?’ Sibyl said... Would he ever get Sibyl to stop calling him sugar?
1980 D. Brierley Blood Group O 76 Okay, sugar, what are you looking for?
3. Chemistry.1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 6 Sugar ofAcorns... A saccharine substance contained in acorns.1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) i. xxi. 301 Animal Sugar.1867 C. L. Bloxam Chemistry 615 A sweet substance called inosite or sugar of flesh.1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 810/2 Saccharum, Liver or Hepatic Sugar.1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 636 Liquid sugar was first pointed out by Proust... It is distinguished from every other species of sugar, by being incapable of crystallizing.1852 W. Gregory Handbk. Org. Chem. (ed. 3) 370 Inosite or sugar of muscle.1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 881/2 Sugar, muscle.
a. In old terminology, applied (with qualification) to certain compounds resembling sugar in form or taste (cf. salt n.1 5). †sugar of iron, steel: ? an oxide or chloride of iron; sugar of lead or Saturn (also English sugar): lead acetate. acid of sugar (also essence of sugar): oxalic acid. †sugar of milk = milk sugar n. at milk n.1 and adj. Compounds 3a m.
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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > iron > [noun] > compounds
sugar of iron, steel1652
flowers of steel1758
ferrane1812
tincture of steel1818
ferrite1851
orthoferrite1956
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > salts > [noun] > salts named by atomic number > acetates > of lead
sugar of lead or Saturn1652
molybdena1661
virgin's milk1704
English sugar1843
the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar > lactose
sugar of milk1753
milk sugar1846
lactose1847
galactose1862
the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > carbohydrates > sugars > oligosaccharides > [noun] > disaccharides > lactose
sugar of milk1753
lactose1847
galactin1885
the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > organic acids > [noun] > dicarboxylic acids > oxalic acid
acid of sugar1776
ethanedioic acid1892
1652 J. French York-shire Spaw x. 92 To mix some Sugar of steel, or steel wine with the first glass.
1652 J. French York-shire Spaw xii. 99 Unless it be corrected..with Sugar of Iron, made out of the very Mine of Iron.
1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist vi. 383 Sugar of Lead, which though made of that insipid Metal and sour salt of Vinager, has in it a sweetnesse surpassing that of common Sugar.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §108. 176 It wil shoot into most transparent Christals, which is called the Sugar of Saturn.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Sugar of milk.
1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iv. §22. 157 The component parts of this [sc. milk] are water, oil, and a sort of a very sweet salt called the sugar of milk.
1776 Med. & Philos. Comm. 4 260 Six parts of a fine volatile alkali, can be saturated with one of the acid of sugar.
1800 B. Moseley Treat. Sugar (ed. 2) 112 The acid thus obtained I call acid of sugar..because sugar affords it more pure..than any other matter hitherto tried.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxv. 314 In Egypt acetate of lead, under the name of English sugar, is in great request for making eye-water.
1847 C. J. Hempel tr. Rau Organon of Specific Healing Art lxii. 128 If triturated with sugar of milk, it [sc. phosphorus] changes to phosphoric acid in a very few hours.
1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Acid of Sugar, Essence of Sugar, common terms for..oxalic acid.
1864 P. Squire Compan. Brit. Pharmacopœia 161 Sugar of Milk... Crystallized Sugar obtained from the Whey of Cow's Milk by evaporation.
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 252/3 Artists Tube Oil Colors..Silver White, Sugar of Lead, Terre Verte.
1975 Nature 23 Oct. 632/2 Something needed to be done to stop the watering of milk..and even so flagrant a malpractice as the use of ‘sugar of lead’, as lead acetate was called, to sweeten beer.
b. In modern terminology, a chemical compound having the composition of ordinary sugar and forming a constituent of many substances; also, in wider sense (with distinctive qualifying word), any member of the saccharose n. and glucose n. groups of carbohydrates, all of which are soluble in water, more or less sweet to the taste, and either directly or indirectly fermentable. sugar of acorns = quercite n. animal sugar, sugar of flesh or sugar of muscle = inosite n. hepatic sugar = liver sugar n. at liver n.1 and adj.2 Compounds 3. liquid sugar, uncrystallizable glucose. See also aphis-sugar n. at aphis n. Compounds, diabetic sugar n. at diabetic n. and adj. Compounds, fruit-sugar n. at fruit n. Compounds 2, gelatine sugar n. at gelatin n. Compounds 2, grape-sugar n. at grape n.1 Compounds 2, invert adj., inverted adj. 6, liver sugar n. at liver n.1 and adj.2 Compounds 3, malt sugar n. at malt n.1 Compounds 2, manna sugar n. at manna n.1 Compounds 2, mushroom-sugar n. at mushroom n. and adj. Compounds 2, nest-sugar n. at nest n. Compounds 2, potato sugar n. at potato n. Compounds 1a(b), sorghum sugar at sorghum n. Compounds 1, starch sugar n. at starch n. Compounds 3, urine sugar n. at urine n.1 Compounds 2, vegetable adj. sugar of milk, milk-sugar (= lactose n.) is a sugar in the modern chemical sense, but the term belongs in origin to the old nomenclature (see 3a).
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > carbohydrates > sugars > [noun]
sugar1806
saccharine1841
saccharoid1882
1826 W. Henry Elem. Chem. II. 403 Sugar enters pretty largely into the composition of milk; and into the urine, when altered by disease.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 1034 Sugar is the essential constituent in liquors to be converted into vinegar.
1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xxxvii. 322 They [sc. saccharine and amylaceous bodies] may be divided into three classes: (1) Sucroses, or the sugars proper; (2) Glucoses, or the grape sugars; (3) Amyloses, or starch and woody fibre.
1891 F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. (ed. 2) 777 This quantity of urine contains half a grain of sugar.
a. in figurative use, passing into adjective (with superlative sugarest, sug(e)rest): Sugary, sweet. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective] > honeyed, mellifluous, or luscious
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mouth-watering1847
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [adjective] > of words or manners
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sugary1591
slicked1594
rose water1598
rose-watered1599
candied1604
soft1609
courtlya1616
smooth-faced1626
oileda1640
blandished1671
sugar1687
fair-spoken1704
smooth-tongued1761
silky1778
pill-gilded1822
blarneyfied1830
greasy1848
blarneyed1861
soothering1866
soothing-syrupy1902
c1530 Crt. Love 22 Thy suger-dropes swete of Elicon Distill in me..I pray.
1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery Our sugarest sweetes reapes sorowing sobs in fine.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 119 Heere are seuerd lips parted with suger breath. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 275 You haue Witch-craft in your Lippes, Kate: there is more eloquence in a Sugar touch of them, then in the Tongues of the French Councell. View more context for this quotation
1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore i. i. 55 Our Country Bona Robaes, oh! are the sugrest delicious Rogues.
1687 T. Tramallier in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) 167 They were wheedled..by..sugar words.
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?1553 Respublica (1952) iii. iii. 24 A slypper suger mowthed howrecop, as can bee.
a1652 R. Brome New Acad. i. i. 13 in Five New Playes (1659) Do you tell me Of your sweet sugar-chop't Nestle cockscombe?
1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. xvi. 370 All that sugar-lipped raillery which is fitted for the situation of a man about to do a foolish thing.
Phrases
With qualifying adjective, noun, or phrase indicating:
a. The place of origin or manufacture. See also Lisbon n.† sugar of Alisaunder n. Obsolete (= Alexandria).† sugar of Babylon n. Obsolete† sugar of Barbary n. Obsolete
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c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 50 Caste a-bouyn Sugre of Alysaundre.
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c1330 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 518 20li. zukur Babilon.
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1592 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 212 x lbs. of Barbarye sugar 10s.
1607 J. Marston What you Will ii Ha sweete, hunny barbary suger sweete Maister.
sugar of Candy n. (cf. sugar-candian n.).
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar > other types of sugar
white sugar1423
red sugar?a1425
sugar of Candy1553
ambered sugara1665
superfine sugar1759
preserving sugar1863
basket sugar1902
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Mij Suger which excelleth the sugre of Candye or Sicilia.
sugar of Cipre n. (= Cyprus).
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1316 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 11 18li. de sucore de cipre.
c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 95 Take resons of corance,..Maces, sugur of Cipris.
sugar of Marrokes n. (= Morocco).
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c1299 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 495 In 25li. de Zuker Marrokes.
c1340 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 36 In 12li. succuris Marrok'.
sugar of Roche n.
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c1299 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 494 In 10li. de Zuker Roch.
1326–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 15 5li. Zukur de Roche.
b. Colour. See also roset n.2† blanch sugar n. Obsolete
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1408–9 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 608 It. 1 lb. suger blanch, 2s.
brown sugar n. (see brown sugar n. at brown adj. Compounds 2).
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1755 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. IV. (at cited word) They put it up in hogsheads,..under the name of grey or brown sugar.
green sugar n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2447/2 Cones of sugar, containing 100 pounds each of green sugar.
white sugar n.
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c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 7 Take whyte sugre an caste þer-to.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ii. sig. Aiii Whan tyme hath tourned white suger to white salte.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 314 White sugar will sometimes be full of maggots.
1853 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 779/2 The juice being decanted off and boiled down..furnished a pure white sugar.
yellow sugar n.
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1834 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce (ed. 2) 1097 Sugar..Bengal, yellow.
c. The stage of boiling, purification, or crystallization at which, or the form in which, the particular kind is produced. See also barley n. Compounds 2, bastard n. 10, candied adj. 1, candy n.2 Compounds 5, clayed adj. 1, feathered adj. 9, loaf sugar n., lump sugar n. at lump n.1 Compounds 2, moist adj. and n. Compounds 2, muscovado n., pearl n.1 12, pearled adj.1 5, powder n.1 4b, powdered adj. 3a, rock n.1 5d, rock n.1 Compounds 2, soft adj. Compounds 2.
(a)
blown sugar n.
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1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) To have Blown Sugar; when it has boiled a few more Walms, hold the Skimmer in your hand, and having, as before, shaken it a little, beating the Sides of the Pan, blow through the Holes.
boiled sugar n.
burnt sugar n.
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1843 J. Pereira Treat. Food & Diet 119 When sufficiently heated, sugar becomes brown,..in this state it is called Caramel or Burnt Sugar.
caramel sugar n.
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1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) These boilings are perform'd by Degrees... Sugar may be boil'd till it becomes Smooth, Pearled, Blown, Feather'd, Crack'd and Caramel.
centrifugal sugar n.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 872 Soft centrifugal sugar.
clarified sugar n.
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1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) Two Ladles full of clarify'd Sugar are put to one of Water.
coarse sugar n.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Coarse sugar, in which there is more oil than in refined sugar, is recommended as a good medicine.
cracked sugar n.
crashed sugar n.
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a1834 in McCulloch Dict. Comm. (ed. 2) 1095 Different Sorts of crashed Sugar to be kept separate.
crude sugar n.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sugar Crude Sugar, or Moscouade, is that first drawn from the Juice of the Cane.
crushed sugar n.
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1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. ii. §1. 66 The syrup..is boiled down again in the vacuum pan, and is obtained in the form of what is termed crushed sugar.
crystal sugar n.
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1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 192/1 Crystal Sugar.
crystalline sugar n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1209 The liquor..can dissolve none of the crystalline sugar.
crystallizable sugar n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1203 Not only is the crystallizable sugar blackened, but its faculty of crystallizing impaired.
crystallized sugar n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1207 Nearly 35 cwt. of crystallized sugar.
double-refined sugar n.
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1755 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. IV. (at cited word) The double refined sugar of the shops.
form sugar n.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 872 Form sugar (nearly white).
granular sugar n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1203 Concentrated cane-juice, containing nearly half its weight of granular sugar.
granulated sugar n.
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1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 225/1 The difficulty of extracting granulated sugar from a fruit containing so much mucilage.
hard sugar n.
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1624 Althorp MS. in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. lv Hard sugar for conserve of redd roses.
high sugar n.
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1848 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) I. 727/2 According to the quantity of water which any sugar contains, so it is denominated high or low; that from the cane being a higher or stronger variety than that from the grape, and sugar-candy a higher form than that of raw sugar.
liquid sugar n.
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1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. ii. ii. 224 By placing a great many slender sticks across a Vessel of liquid Sugar.
1835 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Arts & Sci. II. 795/2 [The key] on being..turned round, unlocks the socket and plug at the bottom of the tube, and allows the liquid sugar to flow through the apertures.
low sugar n.
pounded sugar n.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sugar They strew the Surface over with the same pounded Sugar.
raw sugar n.
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1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 59/2 After the melasses are drained off, the sugar becomes pretty dry and fair, and is then called muscovado or raw sugar.
refined sugar n.
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1652 Mercurius Democritus No. 6. 48 She carries 500 great brass Ordnance, made of Wafer-cakes, rowl'd up together, that are all charg'd with the purest white Powder of refined Sugar, and loaden with great Sugar-plumbs.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 57 As much as the Refined-Sugar wants of its first Weight.
1845 Act 8 & 9 Victoria c. 5 §10 Bastard or Refined Sugar.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 699 Treacle [is] the thick juice which has drained from refined sugar in the sugar-moulds.
refining sugar n.
refuse sugar n.
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1834 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce (ed. 2) 1089 The refuse sugar..remaining after the process of refining.
sifted sugar n.
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1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xvi. 402 The pastry must be..well covered with..sifted sugar.
stamped sugar n.
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1853 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 789/1 A description of sugar, called stamped sugar, is prepared from the inferior qualities..in such a manner as to have the shape and appearance of first quality refined.
strained sugar n.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sugar Strain'd or Brown Sugar..does not differ much from the crude Sugar.
uncrystallizable sugar n.
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1812 Howard in C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Arts & Sci. (1835) II. 793/2 Water dissolves the most uncrystallizable sugar in preference to that which is most crystallizable.
unrefined sugar n.
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1834 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce (ed. 2) 1092 The Quantity of Unrefined Sugar imported into the United Kingdom.
(b) ambered sugar: see at first element.† female sugar n. Obsolete † fluid sugar n. Obsolete † male sugar n. Obsolete † sugar royal n. Obsolete (see quots.).
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1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 498/1 That which is obtained from Muscovado, the crystals of which are sweeter, and less hard and fine, is named female sugar.
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1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 498/1 That which is obtained from cakes of sugar is very white and hard, resembling crystal; it is called male sugar.
pulled sugar n.
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 204/1 Pulled sugar, or penides.
store sugar n.
true sugar n.
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1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 55 This Sugar-Royal is extreamly white throughout the whole.
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 102 Double refined Sugar, called, Sugar Royal.
d. Its use.
coffee sugar n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2443/1 The crystals are separated in the centrifugal machine, and sold as a very light-colored coffee-sugar.
kitchen sugar n.
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 238 They are serued vpon the table, and strewed ouer with kitchen suger.
preserving sugar n.
e. The plant from which it is made; see beet n. Compounds 1, beetroot n., cane n.1 Compounds 1a, date n.1 Compounds 2, maple n.1 Compounds 1, palm sugar n. at palm n.1 Compounds 2.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. attributive.
(a) Of, pertaining to, derived or made from, connected with sugar or the sugar cane, belonging to or involved in the cultivation or manufacture of sugar.
sugar adulteration n.
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1856 Orr's Circle of Sci., Pract. Chem. 409 Any processes..of sugar adulteration.
sugar-barrel n.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. i. 162 Sugar-barrels rolled forth into the street.
sugar-basin n.
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1785 Daily Universal Reg. 1 Jan. 3/2 (advt.) Oval pierced sugar and cream basons, 10 oz. to 15 oz. a pair.
a1828 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. (1941) II. 81 A sugar-basin made of cocoa-nut.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 755/1 Two satin-wood sugar-basins.
sugar basket n.
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1917 F. H. Bigelow Hist. Silver of Colonies Index 472/1 Sugar baskets.
1981 Sunday Tel. 18 Jan. 13/2 Garrads have augmented the exhibition with antique castors.., as well as sugar baskets, boxes, tongs and nippers.
sugar-beer n.
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1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark xvi. 160 This sugar-beer is called huarapu.
sugar-bill n.
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1792 (title) Remarks on the New Sugar Bill.
1848 Ld. G. Bentinck Let. 27 Aug. in B. Disraeli Ld. G. Bentinck (1852) 576 Six days' discussion on the sugar bill.
sugar bin n.
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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 56 There he is,..leaning against the sugarbin in his shirtsleeves.
sugar-biscuit n.
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a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 152 In wine the sucker biskets soom As light's a flee.
sugar-boilery n.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. iv. 304 Of sugar-boileries, plantations, furniture.
sugar-bounty n.
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1840 R. Ellis Laws & Pract. Regulations Customs IV. 243 (margin) Sugar Bounty.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Apr. 10/2 The International Conference upon Sugar Bounties.
sugar-bowl n.
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1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 232 Cadging about the track-pats, pouries an' succar bowls.
1834 M. Edgeworth Helen III. iv. 75 She set sugar-bowl and cream before him.
sugar-brush n.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 281 Sugar Boylers Instruments..a sugar brush.
sugar-chamber n.
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1860 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges i, in Cornhill Mag. July 10 In the sugar-chamber there were four pastrycooks.
sugar-confect n.
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1591 Exch. Rolls Scotl. XXII. 156 For certane succour confectis and sweit meit furneist to bancatis.
sugar cube n.
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1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 17/3 Sugar..Cubes.
1978 T. Allbeury Lantern Network xi. 169 She was screwing up the paper from the sugar cubes.
sugar-culture n.
sugar dish n.
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1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved (ed. 3) II. xxvi. 151 I was told..that this Wood makes fine Sugar-dishes, and other Turners-ware.
1765 J. Wedgwood Let. 17 June in Sel. Lett. (1965) 34 The articles are..a slop basin, sugar dish with cover, [etc.].
1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 131/1 For stealing a silver tea-pot and sugar-dish.
sugar-dust n.
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1908 Daily Chron. 23 May 1/7 This sugar dust is heavily charged with ether.
sugar-duty n.
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1834 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce (ed. 2) 1094 Mr. Grant's motion for a reduction of the sugar duties, 25th of May, 1829.
sugar factory n.
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1908 R. Kipling Actions & Reactions (1909) 96 They [sc. bees] took to cadging round sugar-factories and breweries.
1958 O. Caroe Pathans xxvi. 429 Peshawar, always famous for its sugar-cane, has been enriched with finer varieties which have turned the old village industry of gur into the great sugar-factories which now sustain the life of Pakistan.
sugar-feast n.
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1613 T. Dekker Strange Horse-race sig. B1v Before either this Masque, or Suger-feast come marching in their true and most sweet state.
sugar-furnace n.
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a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 103 Collation of Eggs fried in the suggar furnace.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2446/1 Sugar-furnace, one in which pans are set for boiling sugar-cane juice.
sugar icing n.
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1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper xi. 244 To make Sugar Iceing for the Bride Cake.
1930 E. Waugh Labels vii. 180 Gaudi has again introduced his ‘sugar-icing’ motive, translating it from tile and mosaic into carved stone.
1979 ‘M. Hebden’ Pel & Faceless Corpse xii. 123 The pink shirt had suddenly become sugar icing-coloured and hideously wrong.
sugar industry n.
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1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 628/1 There are numerous modified and subsidiary processes connected with refining, as well as with all branches of the sugar industry.
sugar juice n.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sugar The Sugar Juice is purified, thicken'd, and rendred fit to be converted into any of the Kinds of Sugar.
sugar kettle n.
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1834 J. Kemper in Wisconsin Hist. Coll. (1898) XIV. 444 If ardor leads some of the [Sioux] hunters beyond the boundary stake, they can be punished by the soldiers by having their sugar kettles broken or their lodges torn down.
1847 Webster's Dict. (ed. 2) Sugar-kettle, a kettle used in boiling down the sap or juice from which sugar is made.
sugar knife n.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sugar When it has been a Quarter of an Hour in the Forms, 'tis cut with a Sugar-Knife.
1949 Caribbean Q. 1 8 It was..the stalwart, armed with hoes and..sugar knives.., whose work would ‘make or break’ the proprietor.
sugar lump n.
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1901 R. Kipling Kim xii, in McClure's Mag. July 280/2 She chuckled like a contented parrot above the sugar lump.
1964 D. Francis Nerve ix. 122 The dope has been given to the horses on sugar lumps.
sugar-machinery n.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 366/1 Sugar-machinery, the rolling mills necessary for squeezing out the sap of the sugar-cane.
sugar mill n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > sugar mill
sugar mill1600
trapiche1844
sugar-crusher1870
1600 R. Hakluyt tr. F. Cieça de Corvalho in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 718 His owne Ingenios or sugar-milles.
1800 B. Moseley Treat. Sugar (ed. 2) 33 Water or Horse sugar Mills.
1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. viii. 221 If all the farmers in the district were to combine to grow beet-root on every acre they could plough,..even then it would hardly pay the sugar-mills, or possibly the farmers either.
1971 Advocate-News (Barbados) 24 Apr. 10/1 (advt.) ⅓ acre house plots and/or cottage with sugarmill and swimming pool.
sugar-mould n.
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1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iv. §i. 353 Sal Ammoniac sublim'd in a Sugar-Mould.
sugar mule n.
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1908 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 334. 24 Sugar mules are those shipped south to use on the sugar farms of Georgia, Louisiana, and other Southern States.
1960 V. Williams Walk Egypt 71 A sugar mule, now, was a big fellow. He ate big, but he pulled big, and he would look big before the wagon.
sugar-pan n.
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1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. ii. 55 Copper vessels heated by steams, like sugar-pans,..&c.
sugar-paste n.
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1809 H. Neuman New Dict. Spanish & Eng. Langs. (ed. 2) I. Alfeñique, a sugar-paste made with oil of sweet almonds.
sugar-pot n.
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1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. §ii. ii. 224 Permitting the Molosses to drain away through a hole at the bottom of the Sugar-Pots.
sugar-powder n.
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1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 137 Sugar Powder best 59s per C.
sugar-press n.
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1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Mjv In the Ilande of Hispana..were erected .28. suger presses.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. x. 48 A small sugar-press..under a roof of palm-leaf.
1890 D. Davidson Mem. Long Life x. 261 The cog-wheels of the Indian sugar-presses were invariably cut at an angle of 45°.
sugar ration n.
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1917 Times 28 Feb. 10/3 An Army Council instruction was issued last week limiting the sugar ration for civilian and combatant prisoners of war to 7 oz per week.
1978 L. Deighton SS-GB xxv. 237 Drink up your tea, that's a good boy. It's the last of the sugar ration.
sugar refinery n.
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1794 A. Young Trav. France (ed. 2) II. xix. 539 The sugar refinery is a considerable business, there are 10 large and 17 smaller houses engaged in it.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. v. 184 Bullocks' blood is..used in the sugar refineries in England.
1896 G. Meredith Let. 17 June (1970) III. 1236 I..can own her sweet to the ear, wondering what it is in her that extracts her deadly bitter from a sugar-refinery.
sugar-refuse n.
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1855 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 2) II. 440/2 The following analysis of sugar refuse was made by Professor Johnston.
sugar-saucer n.
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1780 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales (ed. 2) 71 Sugar-saucers of brass wire.
sugar scoop n.
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1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 1 July 8/2 Mothers had been remembered by most of the workers, for there were bread boards, and sleeve holders, sugar scoops and wooden spoons.
1960 R. A. Parker Family of Friends 89 The old days of the Quaker garb and the sugar-scoop bonnet were gone forever.
1977 Time 14 Nov. 21/1 The Concordski whistled down the runway for 33 seconds, sucking in air through four ‘sugar scoop’ intakes slung beneath its body.
sugar-scum n.
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1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 209 Sugar scum, which consists of lime and bullocks' blood.
sugar-ship n.
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1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xliv. 318 He had..worked his passage home in a sugar ship.
sugar-sieve n.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xxii. 281 A Sugar Sive.
sugar-solution n.
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1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 472 Suppose..a sugar-solution before inversion turns the plane of polarisation..to the right.
sugar-syrup n.
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 94 The precious Reed Whence Sugar sirrops in abundance bleed.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 231/2 Animal charcoal is variously applied in the bleaching of sugar-syrup.
sugar thermometer n.
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1913 M. H. Neil Candies & Bonbons & how to make Them 24 A sugar thermometer is generally used for testing the boiling syrup.
sugar trade n.
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1695 Disc. Duties on Sugars 14 This Gentleman seems very unwilling to allow any thing of the Merchant to be concern'd in the Sugar-Trade.
1714 Observ. Trade Sugar Colonies 4 Jamaica could never be kept and improved so as to support the Sugar Trade to this Kingdom.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 625/1 Within the first twenty years of the 16th century the sugar trade of San Domingo expanded with great rapidity.
sugar-wine n.
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1677 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 12 819 Vinous shrubs are now coming into fashion; of these do some make Sugar-wines by art.
sugar worker n.
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1973 Sunday Express (Trinidad) 1 Apr. 12/5 A delegation of sugar workers is to..protest what they call the ‘abandonment of the cane-growing industry’.
sugar-wort n.
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1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 31 The brewing of sugar worts.
(b) Producing sugar.
sugar-climate n.
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1830 T. Burges Debates in Congress 10 May 929 Men have..emigrated from South Carolina to the sugar climate..of Louisiana.
sugar-colonist n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1203 Our sugar colonists.
sugar-colony n.
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1702 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 196 Our sugar collonies in the West Indies.
1733 Act 6 Geo. II c. 13 (title) An Act for the better..encouraging the Trade of his Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America.
1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 56 §9 The Island of Mauritius shall be deemed to be one of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies.
sugar estate n.
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1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. 314 The sugar estates in this colony contain five or six hundred acres.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. x. 62 Managers of sugar-estates.
sugar field n.
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1930 W. K. Hancock Australia iv. 81 Polynesians in their wild state never clamoured for admission to the Queensland sugar-fields.
sugar grove n.
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1792 G. Imlay Topogr. Descr. Western Territory N. Amer. 136 Luxuriant sugar groves.
1847 in Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (31st Congress, 1st Sess.) (1849) No. 5. iii. 629 A ridge covered with sugar maples, formerly an Indian sugar grove.
1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 247 A clump numbering from one hundred to three hundred trees was chosen for the operation. Such a clump came to be called a sugar grove.
sugar-island n.
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1714 Observ. Trade Sugar Colonies 5 How near the Desolation of the Sugar Islands is at hand.
1779 J. Ramsay Let. 23 Nov. in Parl. Papers 1910 (Cd. 5038) XXXV. 675 Captain Wilkinson is particularly celebrated for having said..he wished that all the English sugar islands were skuttled (sunk).
1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Apr. 271/1 The UK has traditionally bought 50 per cent of the sugar consumed here on the world market, principally from the Sugar Islands of the Caribbean.
sugar-islander n.
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1764 J. Otis Rights Brit. Colonies 29 That..brutal barbarity that has long marked the general character of the sugar-islanders.
sugar land n.
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1692 Cal. Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 44 We marcht to the Suggar Land.
1811 Niles' Weekly Reg. 1 101/1 Sugar lands are employing part of our southern laborers.
1883 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang vii. 82 A great deal of the finest sugar-lands in the world.
1974 Guardian 23 Jan. 12/6 As far as sugar lands are concerned,..the Government is now the largest landowner. Tate and Lyle sold their lands to the last government.
sugar-plant n.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sugar Some have imagined, that the ancient and modern Sugar-Plant were different.
sugar plantation n.
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1714 Observ. Trade Sugar Colonies 4 The English Sugar Plantations are upon small Islands.
1834 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce (ed. 2) 1087 The Spanish sugar plantations.
1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xl. 419 The great sugar plantations border both sides of the [Mississippi] river.
1978 ‘A. York’ Tallant for Disaster ii. 28 The burnt earth roadway which led to the sugar plantation.
b.
(a) Objective, with agent-nouns, verbal nouns, and participial adjectives.
sugar-boiler n.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 279 Instruments..usefull to the sugar Boyler or Baker.
1856 Orr's Circle of Sci., Pract. Chem. 388 Iron-melters, sugar-boilers and cooks.
sugar-boiling n.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 279 That hot and Laborious imploy of Sugar Boyling, and refineing.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 357/2 I purchased a small tin saucepan, a piece of marble slab, and commenced sugar-boiling.
1866 W. Reed Hist. Sugar 54 Whilst the sugar boiling season lasted.
sugar-broker n.
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1841 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 10 June 2/3 Several dealers in sugar and sugar brokers were yesterday summoned before Recorder Bertus.
sugar-destroying n.
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1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 406 A sugar-destroying body or ferment.
sugar-grower n.
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1844 H. H. Breen St. Lucia 296 In 1840 the sugar-grower took the alarm.
sugar-growing n.
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1816 Niles' Reg. 6 Apr. 81/1 The representatives of the sugar-growing states insist on a certain duty upon that article.
1856 Orr's Circle Sci., Mech. Philos. 326 In sugar-growing countries.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xvi. 282 The profits of sugar-growing..have been of late very great.
sugar-maker n.
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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Zuccheraio, a sugar-maker, a comfet-maker, a preseruer, a candier.
1750 T. Short Disc. Tea, Sugar, &c. ii. i. 80 With the Skimmings of the Juice of the Cane..the Sugar-makers feed their Swine and Poultry.
1835 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. III. 439 With large ladles the sugar-makers stirred the thickening juice of the maple.
1899 W. A. MacKay Pioneer Life in Zorra 171 Not infrequently would the sugar-makers remain in the woods most of the night boiling down the sap.
sugar-making n.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The whole art of sugar-making, or the reducing vegetable juices to what we call sugar.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. 316 The..dangers to which the sugar-making negroes are exposed.
1828 M. O'Brien Jrnl. 30 Nov. (1968) iii. 27 During sugar-making time it will contain a furnace and other vessels.
1953 R. F. V. Heuston Salmond's Law of Torts (ed. 11) xiv. 566 In Indermaur v. Dames itself the hole in the floor was a defect but a necessary incident of sugar-making.
sugar-manufacturer n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1200 Each sugar manufacturer has a warehouse.
sugar-planter n.
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1747 State of Sugar-Trade 3 British Sugar Planters.
1842 Niles' Reg. 14 May 176/3 (caption) Sugar planters of Louisiana.
1926 J. Masefield Odtaa i. 4 In the seventies others, from all parts of England, settled as sugar-planters along the northern sea coast in the Pituba country.
1983 A. Brookner Look at Me iv. 56 The wealthy sugar planter's daughter.
sugar-planting n.
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1807 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 151 The profits of sugar planting.
sugar-producer n.
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1881 Harper's Mag. Apr. 646 We met one of the largest sugar producers.
1974 Guardian 23 Jan. 12/4 Jamaica is the biggest sugar producer in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
sugar-producing n.
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1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 135 Maui..that deservedly famous sugar-producing region.
1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 354 Sorgho,..a sugar-producing grass.
sugar rationing n.
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1918 Times 20 Jan. 3/1 When sugar rationing actually came into operation, the workers..had to face considerable pressure.
1976 J. Lee Ninth Man 77 Talking about sugar rationing.
sugar-refiner n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > sugar-refiner
sugar-baker1688
sugar-refiner1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 281 The coat of Armes of the Sugar bakers or Refiners.
1755 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. IV. (at cited word) Our sugar refiners first dissolve it [sc. coarse sugar] in water.
1879 G. W. Bagby Canal Reminisc. 10 What was their petty thieving compared to the enormous pillage of the modern sugar refiner and the crooked~whiskey distiller?
1979 Dædalus Summer 113 Sugar refiners, soap boilers, glass blowers, and brewers..depended on continuously fired furnaces.
sugar-refining n.
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1835 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Arts & Sci. II. 793/2 The process of sugar-refining is now carried to so high a degree of perfection.
sugar-yielding adj.
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1866 W. Reed (title) The History of Sugar and Sugar Yielding Plants.
(b) Also in the names of implements used in manufacturing or preparing sugar.
sugar-chopper n.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 366/1 Sugar-chopper, a small hatchet for breaking up loaf-sugar.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 63 Sugar Merchant, Chopper, Cutter.
sugar-dryer n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2446/1 Hersey's sugar-dryer is for granulating damp sugar.
sugar-roller n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1201 It is curious to find in the antient arts of Hindostan exact prototypes of the sugar-rollers.
sugar-skimmer n.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 281 A Sugar Skimmer..is a round plate of Brass a little hollow in the midle and made full of round holes.
c. Instrumental and parasynthetic.
sugar-cured adj.
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1848 A. Prentice Let. 20 June in Tour in U.S. vi. 56 I tasted some excellent sugar-cured ham.
1889 Judge (U.S.) 12 Jan. 222/2 Beautiful red, sugar-cured ham.
1897 Daily News 16 Dec. 7/2 A sugar-cured ham.
sugar-free adj.
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1924 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 67 635 Three other totally depancreatized dogs had been used for studying the administration of insulin..for several weeks, during which time their urine was never sugar-free for a period of more than 6 or 7 hours at a time.
1978 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 July 22/3 The absence of what had formerly been desirable is now proudly advertised: not only lead-free gas, but salt-free diets and sugar-free soft drinks.
sugar-iced adj.
sugar-laden adj.
ΚΠ
1805 Ld. Nelson To Dk. Clarence 12 June in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 455 200 and upwards of sugar-laden Ships.
sugar-loaded adj.
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1805 Ld. Nelson To A. Davidson 12 June in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 454 More than two hundred Sail of sugar-loaded Ships.
sugar-topped adj.
ΚΠ
1906 R. Kipling in Tribune 15 Jan. 4/4 Sugar-topped biscuits.
d. Similative.† sugar-sweet adj. Obsolete
sugar-coloured adj.
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1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 231 Externally sugar-coloured.
sugar-pink adj.
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1961 House & Garden Feb. 48 A..sofa covered in sugar-pink tafetta.
1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions xxi. 299 Rajastham..where..men..painted their houses blinding white or sugar-pink.
ΚΠ
1600 N. Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (rev. ed.) sig. A4v Sugar sweete, or bitter as the gall, Tis Pasquils humour.
1612 J. Davies Muses Sacrifice in Wks. (Grosart) II. 44/2 And Gall itselfe, to them made Sugar-sweet!
C2. Resembling sugar in shape or texture, as sugar limestone, phosphate, -sand.
ΚΠ
1865 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms (ed. 2) Sugar Limestone, a local term, applied in Yorkshire to the metamorphosed mountain limestone that rests on the thick trappean mass of the ‘Whin Sill’.
1887 Colonial & Indian Exhib., London 1886: Rep. Colonial Sections 6 The so-called ‘Sugar-Phosphate’, a finely-granular apatite rock not unlike a dirty saccharine marble.
C3.
a. † sugar-bread n. Obsolete a species of confectionery.† sugar-garden n. Obsolete = sugar-house n.† sugar-house n. Obsolete a sugar-factory, sugar-works.† sugar-man n. Obsolete a sugar-maker or confectioner.† sugar-meat n. Obsolete a sweetmeat, comfit, confection.† sugar-penide n. [compare Middle Low German suckerpenit (see penide n.)] Obsolete corruptly sugar-pennye, barley sugar.† sugar-roll n. Obsolete (a) ? a sweetened bread roll; (b) a sugar-mill roller.† sugar-snuff n. Obsolete a snuff compounded of powdered sugar candy and oil of nutmegs.† sugar-spar n. Obsolete (see quot.).† sugar-spirit n. Obsolete (see quots.).
sugar-almond n. a sweetmeat consisting of an almond coated with sugar; †transferred a stone resembling this.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > nut confections
pinionade1329
butter of almonds?c1425
almond butter1502
almond comfit1569
sugar-almond1594
musk almond1675
praline1714
almond snow1723
almond1783
nougat1827
almond rock1841
burnt almond1850
pistachio candy1853
nougatine1868
noyau1899
gianduja1902
Montélimar1908
turron1918
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido ii. sig. C2v Ile giue thee Sugar-almonds.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. §i. v. 296 The Sugar-Almond..so like to the rougher sort which Confectioners sometimes make, that, excepting the Tast, nothing can be liker.
1935 Amer. Speech 10 193/2 The ‘bonbon [fashion] shades’ included icing blue and sugar almond pink.
1973 G. Greene Honorary Consul iii. ii. 124 It [sc. a missal] might have been a first Communion present, for it closely resembled the sugar almonds..distributed on such occasions.
sugar aquatint n. a method of etching in which the artist draws his dark areas on a copper plate with a solution of black water-colour and sugar.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > aquatint > techniques
thumb-printing1869
sand grain1904
sugar aquatint1962
1962 D. Bland Illustr. of Bks. (ed. 3) viii. 155 Picasso used sugar aquatints in his Buffon, making two plates, one to print grey and the other black.
sugar-bag n. (a) a bag or sack for containing sugar, esp. a bag made of coarse thick paper specially coloured or (Australian and New Zealand) of fine sacking; also used as a measure of quantity; (b) (in Australian Aboriginal usage) a wild bees' honeycomb.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > honeycomb
comba700
honeycombOE
werke1598
virgin comb1639
sugar-bag1764
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > sack > for other specific contents
sand-poke1415
hopsack1481
coal sack1574
hop-bag1604
sugar-bag1764
nutsack1842
bale-sack1883
sugar sack1891
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > honeycomb
honeycombOE
sugar-bag1764
the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > bag or sack as unit
pokec1300
sack1314
pocket1350
quarter-sackc1422
mailc1503
bag1679
sugar-bag1963
1764 New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1889) IX. 156 [I sent] also lb 14¼ Sugar bag with it.
1830 R. Dawson Present State Austral. 136 The strange native pointed with his tomahawk to the tree and..repeated the words, ‘Choogar-bag, choogar-bag, choogar-bag!’ (sugar-bag) their English expression for honey, or anything sweet.
1864 R. Henning Let. 27 Nov. (1966) 185 The other [aboriginal] has been..climbing gum-trees after ‘sugar-bags’, or wild honeycombs.
1882 Cassell's Family Mag. Nov. 756/2 The crowns..have two square corners like the bottom of a sugar-bag.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers vii. 164 There's something very blue; is it a bit of sugar-bag?
1927 M. Terry Through Land of Promise 104 We found the others clustered round a bauhinia tree... ‘We've got a sugar bag.’
1928 V. Palmer Passage i. v. 44 It was Uncle Tony standing with a sugar-bag over his shoulders.
1948 F. A. Iremonger William Temple v. 81 A nine-year-old boy in a Bethnal Green school, who handed to his teacher one morning an untidy piece of blue paper torn from a sugar-bag.
1963 N.Z. Listener 6 Sept. 9/2 Reference to the price of a ‘sugar’ bag full of oysters. It drew my attention to the frequency with which we in New Zealand refer to a ‘sugar bag’ as a basic unit of quality.
1967 A. Reid & D. Reid Paddle Wheels on Wanganui 71 On another trip the same cabin boy acquired a sugar-bag of apples.
sugar-box n. †(a) a sugar-basin or sugar-caster; (b) a box in which sugar is packed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > sugar-castor
sugar-box1620
sugar-caster1676
sugar vase1848
sucrier1869
the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for sugar
sugar-chest1549
sugar-box1796
1620 Unton Inv. (1841) 27 A sugar boxe,..one sugar boxe spoone.
1639 in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. ix. 8 1 Scollup Suger boxe.
1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 448 A vinegar pot, oil pot, and sugar box.
1747 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 81 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 Silver milk pott..suggar box..silver salvar.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. 361 Placing my sugar-boxes in the middle of a tub, and on stone.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 366/1 Sugar-box, a kind of long case in which Havana and some other sugars are imported.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > other confections or sweet dishes
pionade1302
spinee1381
pokerouncea1450
strawberry cream1523
pannag1540
alkermes1547
sugar-bread1587
snow1597
flammick1600
Norfolk fool1623
fool1653
chocolate cream1702
meringue1706
steeple cream1747
trifle1755
snowball1769
sweet bread1777
marrangle1809
meteor1820
mimpins1820
Nesselrode1835
meringué1845
Swiss cream1845
turban1846
coconut cream1847
panforte1865
yokan1875
bombe1892
Eton mess1896
meringue Chantilly1901
streusel1909
rocky road1920
ringocandy1922
stem ginger1922
dulce de leche1923
kissel1924
some-more1925
cream-crowdie1929
Pavlova cake1929
s'more1934
cranachan1946
sugar-on-snow1947
calavera1948
suji halwa1955
vacherin1960
zuppa inglese1961
brûlée1966
pav1966
delice1967
banoffi1974
macaroon1985
Nanaimo1991
macaron1993
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. vi. 167/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Marchpaine, sugerbread [1577 sugred bread], gingerbread.
sugar-butter sauce n. a sauce made with sugar and butter.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > butter sauces
burneux1430
brown butter1653
butter1654
butter saucea1665
melted butter1807
poulette1813
black butter1824
rum butter1824
Montpellier butter1830
maître d'hôtel sauce1845
beurre noir1855
beurréa1865
sugar-butter sauce1901
brandy-butter1939
1901 Daily Chron. 16 Nov. 8/5 A Plum Pudding, with beaten sugar-butter sauce, after the receipt of Merton College, Oxford.
sugar-cake n. a rich cake made with sugar, butter, and cream; also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > rich cake
spice-cake1530
sugar-cake1600
plum cake1606
butter cake1616
pound cake1743
black cake1823
Dundee cake1836
gâteau1845
fat-rascal1868
Dundee1920
Lane cake1921
1600 N. Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (rev. ed.) sig. E2 Such vile coniunctions such constructions make, That some are pois'ned with a Sugar Cake.
1716 Hesperi-neso-graphia ii. 9 This grunting Sow would sooner take, And eat a T——d than Sugar-Cake.
1801 H. Lee Canterbury Tales IV. 14 Pots of conserves, sugar cakes, and such other housewifely presents as..gratify the appetites common to children.
a1821 J. Keats Otho i. ii, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 128 Who..dares to give An old lion sugar-cakes of mild reprieve?
1923 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Mar. 133/1 A demure little Mennonite maid..will invite you cordially to ‘sit up’ to a table arrayed with the wealth of cup cheese and pot cheese and sugar cakes and sauerbraten and noodles and all the rest of the savory dainties..on the menu of a Pennsylvania Dutch family.
1977 A. Wilson Strange Ride R. Kipling ii. 110 The Durbar Room at the Queen's beloved Osborne House—not a very happy sugar-cake Moghul decoration.
sugar-camp n. U.S. a place in a maple forest or plantation where the sap is collected and boiled for sugar.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > from maple sap > place where
sugar-camp1779
sugary1840
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > place of maple-sugar collection
sugar-camp1779
1779 M. Patten Diary (1903) 400 I went to our shugar Camp and covered some fire steads with brush where we had Cabbage and french Turnip seed sowed to preserve them from Cattle.
1805 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 49 He informed me that..the sugar camp near the stockade was where he made sugar.
1805 R. Sutcliff Trav. N. Amer. (1811) 184 I saw several sugar camps..where the sap is collected in small wooden troughs.
1868 J. G. Whittier Among Hills 381 In sugar-camps, when south and warm The winds of March are blowing.
1959 R. E. Campbell I would do it Again ii. 7 The neighbours gathered at the sugar camps.
1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxxviii. 66 Sugar camp. This characteristically Midland [Illinois] term appears only once in the field interviews but with much more frequency in the checklists.
sugar card n. a ration card entitling the holder to a ration of sugar.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > by government or authority > card or coupon of entitlement
ration book1845
meat card1870
ration card1870
ration ticket1871
food card1896
sugar card1917
coupon1918
meat coupon1918
clothing book1943
clothing coupon1943
1917 H. H. Henson Jrnl. 11 Dec. in Retrospect (1942) I. vi. 217 I started the day by filling up the new sugar cards for the household.
sugar-caster n. (also sugar-castor) (see castor n.2).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > sugar-castor
sugar-box1620
sugar-caster1676
sugar vase1848
sucrier1869
1676 London Gaz. No. 1079/4 Stole..Six Salts. A Sugar Castar. A Pepper Caster. A Mustard Pot.
1763 G. Colman in Terræ Filius 7 July 45 A queer Sort of Building, Ma'am, said young Bonus,—a mere Pepper-Box,—and there,—(pointing to the Turrets of All Souls) there are the Sugar-Casters.
1878 J. H. Pollen Anc. & Mod. Gold & Silver Wk. 160 Sugar caster: silver-gilt, chased with figures of virtues.
sugar-coat v. to coat with sugar; figurative, to make palatable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > action of making pleasant > make pleasant [verb (transitive)]
sugar1412
saucec1530
gratify1577
sweetena1586
candy1592
rose-water1655
candify1777
genialize1821
sugar-coat1870
treacle1873
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > use pill, etc. [verb (transitive)] > coat
sugar-coat1870
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > garnish [verb (transitive)] > ice or coat with sugar
ice?1600
frost1827
sugar-coat1870
spin1883
pipe1894
candy-coat1930
1870 Eng. Mech. 18 Mar. 660/3 He can have his pills..sugar-coated by any druggist.
1910 J. J. Reeve in The Fundamentals III. 99 The little truth in it served to sugar-coat and give plausibility to some deadly errors that lurked within.
sugar-coated adj. (of pills).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > sweetened
sugareda1475
sweetened1567
condulcate1569
nectarized1593
mellified1598
sugary1598
dulcified1617
edulcorate1819
sugar-coated1865
saccharous1896
saccharinized1977
the mind > emotion > pleasure > action of making pleasant > [adjective] > made pleasant
sugar-coated1865
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [adjective] > coated
sugar-coated1865
pearl-coated1895
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > [adjective] > iced or sugar-coated
frosted1656
iced1775
sugar-candied1825
sugared1855
sugar-coated1865
glacé1882
piped1969
1865 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) Sugarcoated pills are prepared like the sugarplums of the confectioners.
1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 195/1 Stephen sweetened him up and put him off a week. He called then..and came away sugar-coated again.
1935 Motion Picture Nov. 81/1 That keen humor, barbed sometimes, pointed always, but never other than good-natured and sugar-coated, has passed beyond our ken.
1977 R. L. Wolff Gains & Losses ii. 197 The earliest [High Church] novelists..whose fiction amounted to little more than sugar-coated tracts.
sugar-coating n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > action of making pleasant > [noun] > that which makes pleasant
sweetener?1614
jam1871
sugar-coating1908
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > [noun] > icing or sugar coating
icing1683
frosting1750
piping1846
fondant1861
water icing1881
buttercream1908
sugar-coating1908
rolled fondant1962
1908 Westm. Gaz. 21 Jan. 12/1 Who used his great gift of humour as a sugar~coating for the great things he has had to say.
sugar-cone n. a conical mould used in making loaf sugar.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > mould > for sugar
sugar-cone1856
1856 Orr's Circle of Sci., Pract. Chem. 410 Sugar-cones painted with white~lead are avoided.
sugar-crusher n. (a) a machine for crushing sugar cane; (b) an implement for crushing sugar for use at table.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > sugar mill
sugar mill1600
trapiche1844
sugar-crusher1870
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > masher or crusher
potato-beetle1821
potato masher1835
masher1849
potato-smasher1858
sugar-crusher1870
1870 A. S. Stephens Married in Haste 366 He held a sugar-crusher in one hand.
1901 R. Kipling Kim xv. 403 He felt..that his soul was out of gear with its surroundings—a cog-wheel unconnected with any machinery, just like the idle cog-wheel of a cheap Beheea sugar-crusher laid by in a corner.
1962 J. B. Priestley Margin Released i. i. 11 In winter, toddy, for which we had those silver sugar-crushers.
sugar daddy n. [compare daddy n. 2b] slang (originally U.S.) an elderly man who lavishes gifts on a young woman; also transferred.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > man who lavishes gifts on young woman
sweet papac1923
sugar daddy1926
1926 G. Frankau My Unsentimental Journey ii. 32 There came another woman to the sofa; and spoke to me of ‘sugar-daddies’.
1935 P. G. Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins xxi. 266 The morning papers had come aboard, reassuring citizens..that sugar daddies were still being surprised in love-nests.
1959 ‘M. M. Kaye’ House of Shade xii. 163 A nice kind sugar-daddy of the adoring door-mat type.
1973 Times 13 July (Motor Racing Suppl.) p. iii/2 The oil and petrol companies, for a long time the sugar-daddies of top class motor racing.
1973 Times 20 Sept. 3/7 Norma Levy, a prostitute, had a ‘sugar daddy’ called Bunny who paid her rent and gave her a Mercedes car.
sugar-disease n. diabetes.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [noun] > diabetes
diabetes?a1425
pissing evil1565
pot dropsy1625
diabetic1660
diabetes mellitus1788
sugar-disease1849
saccharine diabetes1874
1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 100/2 The chemical mechanism of sugar-disease.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > place where
ingenio1600
sugar-house1600
sugar-works1604
sugar-garden1613
sugary1696
sugar-bakery1794
sugar-bakehouse1816
purgery1844
usine1858
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 630 His provisions for his Ingenewes or Sugar-gardens.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > place where
ingenio1600
sugar-house1600
sugar-works1604
sugar-garden1613
sugary1696
sugar-bakery1794
sugar-bakehouse1816
purgery1844
usine1858
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. v. 52 To every of the Ingenios or sugar-houses..do belong Negro-slaves, for the planting of their canes.
1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 111 Mr. Derman's sugar-house, in Black-friers, was burnt to the ground.
1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana i. iv. 175 The sugar houses..were easily distinguished, by the vast columns of smoke which they sent up into the air.
186. W. Whitman To Working Men vi, in Poems (1868) 110 White~lead-works, the sugar-house, steam-saws.
sugar-house molasses n. a low-grade molasses produced at sugar-factories, now chiefly used in the preparation of certain medicines and chemicals.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > in sugar manufacture > molasses > type of
sugar-house molasses1848
blackstrap1873
black stripe1880
sorghum1883
1848 W. E. Burton Waggeries & Vagaries 35 Encomiums on the sweets of married life were drowned in sugar-house molasses.
1886 B. P. Poore Perley's Reminisc. I. 39 Many of the passengers visited the bar to imbibe Holland gin and sugar-house molasses—a popular morning beverage.
1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Treacle, sugar-house molasses, the uncrystallizable residue of the refining of sugar.
sugar-lime n. lime formed in the process of preparing sugar from beetroot.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > lime materials > [noun] > lime made from specific materials
stone-lime1707
shell-lime1793
sugar-lime1868
1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 469 The calcareous thin syrup..is..filtered through bone-black, which removes a small quantity of sugar-lime.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > baker > pastry-cook or confectioner
paste-maker1288
pastler?a1439
patisser1538
pasterer1552
confectioner1591
patissier1596
sugar-mana1626
sugar-baker1650
pastry-cook1652
pastry-man1655
pastry chef1890
a1626 N. Breton Figure of Foure ii. No. 78 in Wks. (1879) II. 7/1 Foure sweet Trades in a Citie: Sugar-men, Comfit-makers, Perfumers and Nose-gay-makers.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 280/2 A Sugar mans Lip Bason.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet
dredgec1350
confection1393
sugar-meat1586
trinket1587
confectionary1599
soot-meat1614
dulcid1694
sweetie1721
goody-goody1745
bon-bon1796
confiture1802
candy?1809
sweetmeat1812
sucker1823
dulce1834
lokum1845
goody1847
sweet1851
dragée1853
lolly1854
1586 in J. Nichols Progess Queen Elizabeth (1823) II. 459 A most sumptuous banquet prepared of sugar meats for the men of armes and the ladies.
1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript ii. i. sig. M6 Sweet sugar meats and spice.
sugar mouse n. a sweet made of sugar in the shape of a mouse.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > other sweets
scrochat1448
gobbet riala1500
Portugal1560
sugar-pellet1591
muscadine1599
moscardino1616
rock candy1653
covering-seeds1687
lollipop1784
turn-over1798
lavender-sugar1810
humbug1825
kiss1825
elecampane1826
Gibraltar1831
yellow man1831
rose cake1834
cockle1835
maple candy1840
butterscotch1847
sponge candy1850
squib1851
honeycomb1857
marshmallow1857
motto kiss1858
fondant1861
coffee cream1868
candy-braid1870
candy bar1885
suckabob1888
nut bar1896
crackerjack1902
teiglach1903
red-hot1910
violet cream1912
mouldy1916
patty1916
lace1919
Tootsie Roll1925
sugar mouse1931
Parma1971
cinder toffee1979
1931 A. Uttley Country Child xii. 115 She pinched the stocking from the toe to the top... There was a tin ball..filled with comfits, and an orange, and a sugar mouse.
1965 ‘M. A. Gibbs’ Sugar Mouse xv. 155 A sugar mouse, its chocolate eyes run to smudges, its paper ears flattened,..and its sugar hardened into rock.
sugar nippers n. (a) an implement for cutting loaf sugar into lumps; (b) a pair of sugar tongs.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tool for cutting sugar
sugar nippers1790
the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > sugar-tongs
sugar-tongs1708
tongs1713
tea-tongs1738
sugar nippers1790
1790 Pennsylvania Packet 1 Mar. 1/1 This Day..will commence the Sale of a Large and General Assortment of..screw drivers, iron holders, sugar nippers.
1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Gengulphus in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 240 With those great sugar nippers they nipp'd off his ‘flippers’.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sugar-nippers, tools for cutting loaf-sugar into lumps.
1921 Glasgow Herald 14 July 5 A pair of George II. silver sugar nippers.
1981 [see sugar basket n. at Compounds 1a(a)]. sugar-on-snow n. U.S. a delicacy made by pouring hot maple syrup on snow (snow n.1 5a).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > other confections or sweet dishes
pionade1302
spinee1381
pokerouncea1450
strawberry cream1523
pannag1540
alkermes1547
sugar-bread1587
snow1597
flammick1600
Norfolk fool1623
fool1653
chocolate cream1702
meringue1706
steeple cream1747
trifle1755
snowball1769
sweet bread1777
marrangle1809
meteor1820
mimpins1820
Nesselrode1835
meringué1845
Swiss cream1845
turban1846
coconut cream1847
panforte1865
yokan1875
bombe1892
Eton mess1896
meringue Chantilly1901
streusel1909
rocky road1920
ringocandy1922
stem ginger1922
dulce de leche1923
kissel1924
some-more1925
cream-crowdie1929
Pavlova cake1929
s'more1934
cranachan1946
sugar-on-snow1947
calavera1948
suji halwa1955
vacherin1960
zuppa inglese1961
brûlée1966
pav1966
delice1967
banoffi1974
macaroon1985
Nanaimo1991
macaron1993
1947 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. viii. 9 Sugar on snow,..‘waxed’ maple sugar served on snow.
1948 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 9 Jan. 16/1 As serious a breach of etiquette as eating ‘sugar-on-snow’ with a knife or beating one's grandmother in public.
1973 M. R. Crowell Greener Pastures 173 It never fails to remind me..of our introduction to sugar-on-snow.
sugar-orchard n. U.S. = sugar-bush n. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun] > assemblage of
sugar-bush1823
sugar-orchard1848
sap orchard1861
sap-busha1882
1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Sugar Orchard, a collection of maple trees selected and preserved in the forest for the purpose of making sugar therefrom.
sugar-paper n. coarse paper such as that used for making sugar-bags.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > paper for making sacks or bags
blue paper1594
sugar-paper1926
sack paper1957
sack kraft1963
1926 Paper Terminol. (Spalding & Hodge) 24 Sugar paper, a common quality of wrapping paper made principally from paper waste. Used..for sugar bags.
1972 Guardian 5 Dec. 16/7 Drawing paper..Grey or off-white, good quality sugar paper.
sugar-pellet n. a pellet of sugar; †a piece of sugar-paste.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > other sweets
scrochat1448
gobbet riala1500
Portugal1560
sugar-pellet1591
muscadine1599
moscardino1616
rock candy1653
covering-seeds1687
lollipop1784
turn-over1798
lavender-sugar1810
humbug1825
kiss1825
elecampane1826
Gibraltar1831
yellow man1831
rose cake1834
cockle1835
maple candy1840
butterscotch1847
sponge candy1850
squib1851
honeycomb1857
marshmallow1857
motto kiss1858
fondant1861
coffee cream1868
candy-braid1870
candy bar1885
suckabob1888
nut bar1896
crackerjack1902
teiglach1903
red-hot1910
violet cream1912
mouldy1916
patty1916
lace1919
Tootsie Roll1925
sugar mouse1931
Parma1971
cinder toffee1979
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Alfenique Suger pellets, Saccari gluten.
1613 T. Dekker Strange Horse-race sig. F4 Dishes..heaped full to the brim with Sugar-pellets.
1830 Edinb. Rev. 50 517 For administering all kinds of homoopathic medicine the little sugar pellets are the favourite medium.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > barley-sugar
pennet1337
sugar-penide1599
barley sugar1702
alphenic1775
barley-candy1883
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 108/2 Then take Sugerpennye as much as is needfulle with Lettis, and fragrant Rosewater.
a1625 T. Lodge Poore Mans Talentt (1881) 28 Take..of sugar penedes to the quantity of them all.
1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum i. 177 With sugar Penids make a Bolus for one dose.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 55 The first Sort,..call'd Sugar-Penids, is boil'd till the Sugar becomes brittle.
sugar-point n. the degree of boiling down at which the sugar crystallizes out.
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1901 Chambers's Jrnl. 520/1 Anxiously testing the bright-brown liquid for the sugar-point.
sugar puff n. (a) a puff (see puff n. 2a) made with sugar; (b) (in plural) the proprietary name of a breakfast cereal.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > sugar confections
sugar roset1363
sugar-work1572
sugar snow1611
moss1706
sugar puffa1711
silver web1769
sultana1862
chip1876
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > grain dishes > [noun] > breakfast cereals
granola1886
cornflakes1890
cereal1899
shredded wheat1899
wheatflakes1903
Post Toasties1908
Wheaties1925
Rice Krispies1928
Pablum1932
Weetabix1936
muesli1939
flakes1951
snap, crackle, pop1954
sugar puff1957
granola1970
a1711 in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) vi. 134 Rattefea biscakes, sugar puffs, chips.
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum M m 3 b To make all Sorts of Sugar Puffs.
1957 Trade Marks Jrnl. 1 May 460 Sugar Puffs... Cereal preparations coated with sugar and flavoured with honey... Quaker Oats Limited.
1959 Elizabethan Apr. 10/1 You've taken all the Sugar Puffs which are sweet already and left me with one mouldy old bit of Shredded Wheat.
1962 J. Braine Life at Top xiii. 173 I want Sugar Puffs, Daddy, I do. And yoggy. And cheese.
sugar rag n. U.S. = sugar-teat n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > sugar-teat
sugar-teat1847
sugar rag1855
titty-bag1873
sugar-tit1892
1855 J. E. Cooke Ellie 203 Are you going..to make a sugar-rag for that baby up there?
1895 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Dec. 136/1 Somebody fetch this sick doll a sugar-rag.
1938 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 15 Feb. 1/6 Mayor J. Fulmer Bright..dubbed the concessions offered by the State a ‘sugar-rag dipped in paregoric’.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > roll
roll1581
bapc1600
wreath1600
breadcake1635
French roll1652
cookie1701
sugar-roll1727
petit pain1766
souter's clod1773
twist1830
simit1836
bread roll1838
pistolet1853
flute1855
twist-loaf1856
Parker House roll1873
crescent roll1886
bagel1898
Kaiser roll1898
buttery1899
croissant1899
split1905
pan de sal1910
bridge roll1926
Kaiser1927
Kaiser bun1933
Bialystok roll1951
pletzel1952
panini1955
bialy1958
Bialystok1960
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > sugar mill > part of
sugar-roll1727
trash-turner-
1727 Coll. Epigrams ccxii All their cheer was sugar-rolls and sack.
1758 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Rec. App. ii. 129 A new method of Casting Guns or Cannon, Fire Engines, Cylinders, Pipes, and Sugar Rolls,..in dried sand.
1767 in Notes & Queries (1901) 9th Ser. 7 148/1 It is customary with us [at Caius Coll., Camb.]..to have sugar-roll and sack standing in the hall.
sugar sack n. a bag made of fine sacking for containing sugar; the sacking itself.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > sack > for other specific contents
sand-poke1415
hopsack1481
coal sack1574
hop-bag1604
sugar-bag1764
nutsack1842
bale-sack1883
sugar sack1891
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > coarse or rough > for packing or bags
sackcloth1373
packcloth1394
soutage1532
sacking1707
bagging1732
sugar sack1891
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed ii. 18 Has any man here a needle? I've got a piece of sugar-sack.
1929 B. L. Burman Mississippi 78 Two beds, one made of automobile cushions nailed together and covered with a few folded sugar-sacks.
1965 S. T. Ollivier Petticoat Farm x. 140 The thin tired figure with the..sugar-sack apron and dishevelled hair.
sugar sand n. (a) sandstone which breaks up into granules resembling sugar; (b) U.S. a fine sand raised by the sap of the maple tree which results in a gritty sediment in maple syrup unless removed.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > maple syrup > sediment
nitre1872
sugar sand1882
1882 7th Vermont Agric. Rep. 1881–2 64 In the process of sugar making there was a point where it would combine with the lime, making ‘sugar sand’ or the malate of lime.
1890 J. F. Carll in Dialect Notes (1904) 2 vi. 391 Drillers have certain terms—not classical, but expressive and well understood by the craft and by oil men generally—sugar-sand, clover-seed, corn-meal,..etc.
1908 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Oct. 265 ‘Niter’ or ‘sugar-sand’..is a sand-like, gritty substance which is deposited during the process of evaporation of the sap [of the sugar-maple].
1949 Highway Traveler Feb. 39/1 Strainers..through which the hot syrup is passed to remove the ‘nitre’, or ‘sugar sand’, a fine gritty substance, before it is canned.
1975 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 25 May 5/3 The strained [maple] syrup should sit to allow sugar sand to settle to the bottom of the mixture.
sugar shell n. North American a spoon with a shell-shaped bowl for serving sugar.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > cutlery > spoon > types of
maidenhead1495
slipc1530
Apostle spoon1631
tea-spoon1686
hall-spoon1688
pap spoon1691
tablespoon1741
dessert-spoon1808
salt-spoon1820
monkey spoon1833
Puritan spoon1875
sugar shell1895
seal-top1898
slotted spoon1900
absinthe spoon1905
trifid1927
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 188 Solid Sterling Flat Ware... Tea Spoons..Dessert Forks..Sugar Shells..Butter Knives.
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 July 7/1 Sale Goes Merrily On!.. Sugar Shells, fine silver plate, plain, for 50c.
sugar-shop n. (see quot. 1909).
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1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Sugar-shop (Electioneering), money shop, literally; but figuratively a head centre of bribery.
sugar sifter n. (a) see quot. 1875; (b) = sugar-caster n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2452/1 Sugar-sifter, a machine for sorting grades of crushed or ground sugar according to fineness of grain.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. i. vi. 88 Now, what did you give for that sugar-sifter?
1976 Deeside Advertiser 9 Dec. 9/6 She presented a cut glass sugar sifter to Mrs. Brockley, past president.
sugar snow n. (a) snow (snow n.1 5a) made with sugar; (b) North American a snowfall in the maple sugar season (see quot. 1932).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > sugar confections
sugar roset1363
sugar-work1572
sugar snow1611
moss1706
sugar puffa1711
silver web1769
sultana1862
chip1876
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > a fall of snow > at specific season
sugar snow1826
robin snow1853
1611 J. Davies Scourge Folly 261 If a Storme should rise..Of Suger-snowes, and Haile of Care-a-wayes.
1826 A. Anderson Diary 20 Mar. in G. Sellar Narrative (1916) viii. 124 Gordon awakened us by shouting ‘A sugar snow.’ There had been a light shower of it during the night, and the air was soft. Holes were rebored, and there was a fine run of sap.
1932 L. I. Wilder Little House in Big Woods 92 It's called sugar snow, because a snow this time of year means that men can make more sugar... The snow will hold back the leafing of the trees, and that makes a longer run of sap.
1973 M. R. Crowell Greener Pastures 149 Sugar snow is falling in those distinctive great feathery flakes that foretell the beginning of a maple sap run.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun] > substitute for
sugar-snuff1715
1715 F. Slare Vindic. Sugars 6 in Exp. & Obs. Upon Oriental & Other Bezoar-Stones I have..recommended the Use of Sugar-Snuff to several Friends.
sugar soap n. an alkaline abrasive used to remove paint, and in solution for cleaning paintwork.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning other miscellaneous things > [noun] > cleaning paintwork > substance for
soogee-moogee1882
strongers1927
sugar soap1930
soogee1944
1930 C. H. Eaton Painting & Decorating IV. xiii. 843 Sugar soap has a softening action on the water, and is not so liable [as soda]..to cause undue softening of the paint film.
1958 Woman 22 Feb. 14/3 Walls must be washed, brushed... Paintwork washed with sugar-soap, rinsed and allowed to dry.
1963 W. Tee Painting & Decorating viii. 67 When you have removed all traces of the sugar soap, mop up surplus moisture.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > [noun] > white lamellar mineral
spar1581
spaad1594
spar-stone1694
spat1706
sugar-spar1730
spath1763
chesil spar1835
1730 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 31 Those which they call Sugar-spars, are those whose Crystallisations are very small, and so on crumbling to Pieces have the Appearance of powdered Sugar.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > other distilled liquor > [noun] > liquor from sugar
molass1562
punch1657
molasses spirit1731
sugar-spirit1731
tafia1763
cachaça1856
caña1881
1731 P. Shaw Three Ess. Artific. Philos. 126 By Sugar-Spirit is here understood, the Spirit prepared from the Washings, Scummings, Dross and Waste of a Sugar-Baker's Refining House.
1811 Ann. Reg., Hist. 33/1 He..proposed an increase of one halfpenny per gallon on the wash of sugar-spirits.
sugar stick n. a stick of sweetstuff; also figurative.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > inconstant person or thing > inconstant person
starter1519
changeling1539
flirt1577
Protean1598
weathercock1598
changerc1600
mooncalf1607
minute jacka1616
a nose of wax1821
sugar stick1825
wax-nosea1843
in-and-outer1905
brainstormer1907
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > stick or tube
wreath1562
rock1718
sugar stick1825
pipe1843
lemon platt1916
slim jim1916
seaside rock1963
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 51 Their upright cylinder-shaped show-glasses, containing peppermint-drops,..sugar-sticks, hard-bake [etc.].
1892 Irish Daily Independent 4 July 5/5 We are not sugarsticks.
1892 Irish Daily Independent 4 July 5/5 Sugarsticks..men whose steadfastness would melt away before a passing cloud.
1914 G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn xxi. 255 When the three boys last met in the village market-place, they were all sucking sugar-sticks.
1936 W. B. Yeats Let. 21 Dec. (1940) 124 He [sc. Wilfred Owen] is all blood, dirt & sucked sugar stick.
sugar-teat n. (see quot. 1847); in quot. 1856 for sugar-cone n., transferred.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > sugar-teat
sugar-teat1847
sugar rag1855
titty-bag1873
sugar-tit1892
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Sugar-teat, a small portion of moist sugar tied up in a rag of linen of the shape and size of a woman's nipple, given to quiet an infant when the mother is unable to attend.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. v. 63 Sugar-teats of raw meat are passed around.
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling v. 51 The 'coon nibbled at his flesh and cried again. ‘He wants his sugar-teat,’ Fodder-wing said maternally.
sugar-tit n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > sugar-teat
sugar-teat1847
sugar rag1855
titty-bag1873
sugar-tit1892
1892 Dial. Notes 1 232 Sugar-tit.
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind viii. 145 Prissy produced the sugar-tit..and the baby's wails subsided.
1958 S. A. Grau Hard Blue Sky 118 So she went into the bedroom and picked up the sugar tit and tucked it into his mouth.
sugar-tongs n. a metal implement for taking hold of pieces of lump sugar (to put them into a beverage), consisting of two limbs connected by a flexible back (or a hinge) and furnished at each end with claws or a spoon-shaped plate.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > sugar-tongs
sugar-tongs1708
tongs1713
tea-tongs1738
sugar nippers1790
1708 W. King Art of Cookery 4 For want of Sugar Tongues, or Spoons for Salt.
1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. 272 Because people are now always in a hurry to catch the train, they haven't time to use the sugar-tongs.
sugar trough n. U.S. a wooden trough used for collecting maple sap.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > cavity in tree-trunk for sap-collection
box1722
sugar trough1779
1779 in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1886) 2nd Ser. II. 453 Made Sugar Troughs and Katch.d some Sap.
1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods II. iv. 90 What should I do but see the old sugar-trough floating in the bushes.
1946 C. Richter Fields 17 She lifted the long bundle from out of the sugar trough.
sugar vase n. a tall sugar-container for use at table.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > sugar-castor
sugar-box1620
sugar-caster1676
sugar vase1848
sucrier1869
1848 H. R. Forster Stowe Catal. 144 A pierced sugar-vase—with goats' heads.
1956 G. Taylor Silver ix. 202 Sugar Vases. Among the many varieties of vases is one based on the Greek volute-krater.
1981 Sunday Tel. 18 Jan. 13/1 Tate and Lyle's own collection..includes silver gilt sugar vases with tops, and the pierced ladles used with them.
sugar-vinegar n. vinegar made from the waste juice and washings in sugar-manufacture.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > acid or tart flavouring > [noun] > vinegar > types of
alegara1425
red vinegarc1475
beeregara1500
white wine vinegar1527
red wine vinegar1596
wine-vinegara1617
beer-vinegara1668
vinegar beer1677
vinegar-powder1753
chilli-vinegar1818
rice vinegar1821
wood-vinegar1837
sugar-vinegar1839
mint vinegar1845
tarragon vinegar1845
cider vinegar1851
Orleansa1857
wood-acid1858
four thieves' vinegar1868
balsamic vinegar1982
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1 Vinegar may be distinguished into four varieties,..1. Wine vinegar. 2. Malt vinegar. 3. Sugar vinegar. 4. Wood vinegar.
sugar-wash n. (see quot. 1812).
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > in sugar manufacture > juice of sugar cane > dregs or refuse of
trash1707
dunder1774
cane trash1790
sugar-wash1812
bagasse1833
megass1833
dabs1858
pummy1877
1812 Ann. Reg., Gen. Hist. 9 ‘Sugar wash’ i.e. the liquid prepared in order to distil spirits from it.
sugar-water n. †(a) water in which sugar has been dissolved; (b) see quot. 1753; (c) U.S. the sap of the sugar-maple.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > water with dissolved sugar
sugar-waterc1430
simple syrup1526
amrit1884
the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > maple syrup > maple sap
sugar-water1875
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 7 Take almaundys,..an stampe hem, an draw hem, with þe sugre water thikke y-now, in-to a fayre vessel.
c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 85 Grynde hem with sugour water into faire mylke.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Sugar spirit Sugar-water, which is no other than the water in which the aprons, moulds, and other utensils, employed in the refining of sugar, are washed.
1843 J. Pereira Treat. Food & Diet 118 Sugar water is frequently used at the table on the continent.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2267/2 A spout for sugar-water (the sap of the sugar~maple tree).
sugar-weather n. Canadian spring weather, characterized by cold nights and warm days, that starts the sap running in maple trees.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > kinds of weather > a spell of a kind of > specific
tide-weather1740
growing weather1794
sugar-weather1826
sap weather1950
1826 A. Anderson Diary 18 Mar. in G. Sellar Narrative (1916) viii. 124 Have had no sugar-weather this week; frosty with strong winds, and some snow.
1942 G. Campbell Thorn-apple Tree 97 When the March sun began to honeycomb the snow, and the sun was warm on the south side of the house, then came sugar weather.
b. In names of birds, insects, and other animals that feed upon or infest sugar or sweet things.
(a)
sugar-acarus n.
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1856 Orr's Circle of Sci., Pract. Chem. 409 The theory which refers grocers' psora to the sugar acarus is exceedingly probable.
sugar-ant n.
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1791 Philos. Trans. 1790 (Royal Soc.) 80 346 The Sugar Ants, so called from their ruinous effects on the sugar-cane.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 443/2 Sugar-Ant, a small ant, known in many parts of Australia by this name because of its fondness for sweet things.
sugar-worm n.
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1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1087 I assert that a little worm is bred in Sugar, long, black as a flea,..like to a Weevil; and therefore we may justly call it a Sugar-worm.
(b)
sugar-creeper n. (see creeper n. 3).
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1811 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. i. 258 Sugar Creeper, Certhia saccharina.
sugar-eater n. = sugar-bird n. 2, 3.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Certhiidae
sugar-bird1787
sugar-eater1796
wren creeper1811
tree-creeper1814
tree-climber1879
tree-clipper1885
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Nectariniidae (sun-bird)
sugar-eater1796
sugar-bird1798
sunbird1826
nectar bird1842
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > genus coereba
sugar-bird1787
sugar-eater1796
sai1869
honeycreeper1872
guit-guit1893
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Thraupinae (tanager) > genus Dacnis
sugar-bird1787
sugar-eater1796
1796 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. vi. 910 Sugar eater, Certhia flaveola.
1845 Richardson in Encycl. Metrop. XXII. 464/2 Nectarinia,..Sugar-eater.
sugar glider n. a flying phalanger, Petaurus breviceps, found in Australia and New Guinea.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Phalangeridae (phalanger) > genus Petaurus (sugar glider)
petaurist1834
sugar glider1937
1937 Discovery Dec. 365/1 Only fifteen inches in total length, with a lovely ash-grey coat.., the Sugar Glider is usually a gregarious creature.
1941 E. Troughton Furred Animals Austral. 95 ‘Sugar Glider’ is now adopted as being brief and suitable for popular use.
1972 Sci. Amer. Sept. 56/1 Males of the sugar glider..go even further.
sugar-louse n. = sugar-mite n.
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1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxiii. 320 The common sugar-louse.
sugar-mite n. (a) a springtail or silverfish, Lepisma sacchari; (b) a mite of the genus Tyroglyphus or Glyciphagus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Thysanura > member of genus Lepisma (silver-fish)
sugar-mite1796
silver-fish1855
fish-moth1859
slicker1902
fish insect1905
silver lady-
1796 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. vi. 910 Sugar mite, Lepisma saccharina.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Sugar-mite, a winged insect; lepisma.
1884 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. (ed. 2) Sugar-mite, a species of Acarina or mite, Acarus sacchari.
sugar squirrel n. a species of flying-squirrel found in Australia, which lives partly on honey; = sugar glider n. above.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > other types of
palm squirrel1771
sugar squirrel1846
Schizodon1848
ground-squirrel1867
1846 G. R. Waterhouse Nat. Hist. Mammalia I. 331 Petaurus (Belideus) Sciureus. Squirrel Flying-Phalanger... Sugar Squirrel of the colonists of New South Wales.
1932 Victorian Naturalist XLIX. 97 When one has kept the ‘Sugar Squirrel’ in captivity and suffered keen bites from its long piercing teeth, one is able to appreciate the spitfire temper concealed in these beautiful little creatures.
c. In the names of plants or fruits, so called on account of their sweetness or their yielding sugar. † sugar-pear n. Obsolete a very sweet variety of pear.† sugar-reed n. [compare Dutch suikerriet] Obsolete = sugar cane n.
sugar-apple n. either of two West Indian trees of the N.O. Anonaceæ or their fruits, Anona squamosa and Rollinia Sieberi.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > other tropical or exotic fruits
tamarind1539
guava1555
genipat1568
jack1582
genipap1613
custard apple1648
star apple1693
sweet-sop1696
breadfruit1697
sugar-apple1739
sweet-apple1760
guarri1789
ackee1792
marmalade-box1796
five-corner1826
jakkalsbessie1854
Molucca berry1861
bullock's heart1866
guava-apple1866
vegetable egg1866
Jew plum1880
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > of tropical America > sweet-sop tree
sweet-sop1696
water apple1696
sugar-apple1739
purple apple1754
custard tree1760
sweet-apple1760
sugar-sop1847
1739 Philos. Trans. 1737–8 (Royal Soc.) 40 347 The Fruit of this and most other Anonas are Food for Lizards... Some of these Fruits have, from their Taste, been called Custard-apple, Sugar-apple, and Sour-sops.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 179 It bears about April a great many flowers very much resembling those of a sugar apple.
1874 J. L. Stewart & D. Brandis Forest Flora N.-W. & Central India 6 Custard-apple (Sweet-sop or Sugar-apple in America).
sugar-bean n. Phaseolus saccharatus and Phaseolus lunatus (1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade).
sugar beet n. any variety of the beetroot plant from which sugar is manufactured.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > plants yielding sugar or syrup > [noun] > sugar beet
sugar beet1831
1831 J. Sinclair Corr. II. 422 Information regarding..the sugar beet, will be found in..‘Crud's Economie de l'Agriculture’, p. 285.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 626/1 The sugar beet is a cultivated variety of Beta maritima.
sugar-berry n. the North American nettle-tree, Celtis occidentalis, = hackberry n. 2a; also, one of several other North American species of Celtis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > North American > hackberry or nettle tree
lote?1518
lote-tree1548
nettle-tree1548
lotus1551
lotus tree1601
saffron-tree1716
hagberry1737
hoop-ash1763
hackberry1779
sugar-berry1818
1818 W. P. C. Barton Compendium Floræ Philadelphicæ I. 151 Celtis occidentalis... Sugar-berry Tree. American Nettle Tree.
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 580 The drupes of Celtis occidentalis, the Nettle-tree or Sugar-berry, are administered in the United States in dysentery.
1896 Chicago Rec. 17 Feb. 4/6 He laid the groundwork..by cutting a sugarberry sprout.
1948 Florida Anthropologist May 19 This vegetation includes sugarberry, banyan, mulberry, papaya, saw palmetto and small plants.
1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World xiv. 129/1 The closely related sugarberry (C. laevigata), native from Indiana and Illinois southward,.. has a maximum height of 90 feet.
sugar-birch n. a North American species of birch, as Betula lenta or Betula nigra, from the sap of which sugar is obtained.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun]
bircha700
birch-tree1530
weeping birch1606
Our Lady's tree1608
black birch1674
sugar-birch1751
white birch1766
red birch1774
yellow birch1774
paper birch1791
canoe birch1810
mountain mahogany1810
old field birch1810
mahogany birch1813
towai1845
river birch1846
kamahi1867
silver birch1884
wire birch1899
1751 J. Bartram Observ. Trav. from Pensilvania 27 The timber was sugar birch, sugar maples, oak and poplar.
sugar-fungus n. the fungus of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiæ.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > microscopic fungi > yeast-fungus
Mycoderma1846
sugar-fungus1857
yeast-plant1857
saccharomyces1873
saccharomycetes1884
yeast1899
Candida1939
1857 E. L. Birkett Bird's Urinary Deposits (ed. 5) 398 The penicillium glaucum, though distinct from the sugar-fungus, yet is not unfrequently found associated with it.
sugar-grass n. (a) = sorghum n. 1b; (b) the Australian grass Pollinia fulva or Erianthus fulvus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > Australian grasses
silver grass1600
buffalo grass1784
cane grass1827
porcupine grass1842
tussock-grass1842
spinifex1846
spear-grass1847
rice grass1848
sugar-grass1862
blue star grass1876
wiregrass1883
windmill-grass1889
danthonia1918
Wimmera rye-grass1920
niggerhead1923
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > plants yielding sugar or syrup > [noun] > sugar-cane
reeda1398
canamell?a1425
sugar cane1568
sugar1593
sugar-reed1718
plant cane1721
sorgho1760
cane1781
ribbon cane1803
riband cane1811
imphee1857
sweet sorghum1859
sweet sorgho1861
sugar-grass1862
plant1866
broom corn1886
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xx. 476 The sugar grass, or sorgho.
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 106 The ‘Sugar Grass’ of colonists, so called on account of its sweetness.
sugar-gum n. the Australian Eucalyptus corynocalyx and E. Gunnii.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees
yellow box1662
gum tree1676
white gum tree1733
whip-stick1782
peppermint1790
red gum tree1790
red mahogany1798
white gum1798
box1801
blue gum1802
eucalyptus1809
box tree1819
black-butted gum1820
bloodwood1827
white ash1830
blackbutt1833
morrel1837
mountain ash1837
mallee scrub1845
apple gum1846
flooded gum1847
Moreton Bay ash1847
mallee1848
swamp gum1852
box-gum1855
manna gum1855
white top1856
river gum1860
grey box1861
woolly butt1862
marlock1863
fever tree1867
red ironbark1867
river white gum1867
karri1870
yellow jacket1876
eucalypt1877
yapunyah1878
coolibah1879
scribbly gum1883
forest mahogany1884
yellow jack1884
rose gum1885
Jimmy Low1887
nankeen gum1889
slaty gum1889
sugar-gum1889
apple box1890
Murray red gum1895
creek-gum1898
eucalyptian1901
forest red gum1904
river red gum1920
napunyah1921
whitewash gum1923
ghost gum1928
snow gum1928
Sydney blue gum1932
salmon gum1934
lapunyah1940
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 27 Eucalyptus Gunnii,..In Tasmania this is known as ‘Cider Gum’, and in South-Eastern Australia occasionally as the ‘Sugar Gum’.
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 442 Eucalyptus corynocalyx,..Sometimes called ‘Sugar Gum’, on account of its sweetish foliage, which attracts cattle and sheep.
sugar-melon n. a sweet melon (cf. French melon sucrin).
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > gourd > [noun] > melon > musk melons
muskmelon1573
sugar-melon1600
cantaloupe1739
rock melon1789
mango1866
sweet melon1883
spanspek1886
honeydew1916
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > gourd > melon > other types of melon
melopepon1555
muskmelon1573
macock1588
sugar-melon1600
cantaloupe1739
rock cantaloupe1776
rock melon1789
nutmeg melon1811
citron1826
pie melon1857
sweet melon1883
spanspek1886
honeydew1916
pepino1922
Ogen melon1967
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xl. 252 To make cucumbers or pompions sugred [margin Sugar-melons].
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 525 Some are called Sugar Melons, others Peare Melons, and others Muske Melons.
sugar-millet n. = sorghum n. 1b.
sugar pea n. (also sugar snap pea, †sugar pease) see quots. 1707, 1866; = mange-tout n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > sugar-pea
sugar pea1707
mange-tout1823
snow pea1949
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > pea > sugar-pea
sugar pea1707
mange-tout1823
snow pea1949
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > pea > other peas
garden pea1573
rathe-ripe1677
pigeon pea1683
sugar pea1707
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
maple pea1732
egg-pea1744
petits pois1820
pea1866
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
vining pea1959
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 156 The Sugar Pease, which being planted in April is ripe about Midsummer, its Cods..boiled with the unripe Pease in them, is extraordinary sweet.
1710 Tusser Redivivus in Tusser's Husb. (1878) 89 (note) Runcival pease find now very little Entertainment in Gentlemen's Gardens... In their room are got the Egg pea, the Sugar pea,..etc.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 897/2 There is a section [of peas] denominated Sugar-peas, which is remarkable in that the pods are destitute of the inner film peculiar to the pods of the other kinds of Peas.
1907 A. French Bk. Vegetables 198 Pea, edible-podded or sugar, is a type of pea with tender pods, which are eaten.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 591/1 The seeds [sc. peas] are contained in a green pod, which is not usually eaten (except in the case of the sugar or mangetout variety).
1980 Ecology Center (Berkeley, Calif.) Newslet. Oct. 6/2 A great crop of Sugar Snap Peas.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > other types of
calewey1377
honey peara1400
pome-pear1440
pome-wardena1513
choke-pear1530
muscadel1555
worry pear1562
lording1573
bon-chrétienc1575
Burgundian pear1578
king pear1585
pound pear1585
poppering1597
wood of Jerusalem1597
muscadine1598
amiot1600
bergamot1600
butter pear1600
dew-pear1600
greening1600
mollart1600
roset1600
wax pear1600
bottle pear1601
gourd-pear1601
Venerian pear1601
musk pear1611
rose pear1611
pusill1615
Christian1629
nutmeg1629
rolling pear1629
surreine1629
sweater1629
amber pear1638
Venus-pear1648
horse-pear1657
Martin1658
russet1658
rousselet1660
diego1664
frith-pear1664
maudlin1664
Messire Jean1664
primate1664
sovereign1664
spindle-pear1664
stopple-pear1664
sugar-pear1664
virgin1664
Windsor pear1664
violet-pear1666
nonsuch1674
muscat1675
burnt-cat1676
squash pear1676
rose1678
Longueville1681
maiden-heart1685
ambrette1686
vermilion1691
admiral1693
sanguinole1693
satin1693
St. Germain pear1693
pounder pear1697
vine-pear1704
amadot1706
marchioness1706
marquise1706
Margaret1707
short-neck1707
musk1708
burree1719
marquis1728
union pear1728
Doyenne pear1731
Magdalene1731
beurré1736
colmar1736
Monsieur Jean1736
muscadella1736
swan's egg1736
chaumontel1755
St Michael's pear1796
Williams1807
Marie Louise1817
seckel1817
Bartlett1828
vergaloo1828
Passe Colmar1837
glou-morceau1859
London sugar1860
snow-pear1860
Comice1866
Kieffer pear1880
sand pear1880
sandy pear1884
snowy pear1884
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 72 in Sylva Pears..Summer Poppering, Sugar Pear, Lording Pear.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Pear The green sugar-pear.
sugar-pine n. (see quots.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies
pine treeeOE
pineOE
pine-nut treec1330
pineapplec1390
pineapple treea1398
mountain pine1597
pine1597
mountain pine1601
frankincense1611
rosin flower?1611
black pine1683
Scotch pine1706
yellow pine1709
Jersey pine1743
loblolly pine1760
mugoa1768
Scots pine1774
Scotch fir1777
arrow plant1779
scrub pine1791
Georgia pine1796
old field pine1797
tamarack1805
grey pine1810
pond pine1810
New Jersey pine1818
loblolly1819
Corsican pine1824
celery-top pine1827
toatoa1831
heavy-wooded pine1836
nut pine1845
celery pine1851
celery-topped pine1851
sugar-pine1853
western white pine1857
Jeffrey1858
Korean pine1858
lodge-pole pine1859
jack pine1863
whitebark pine1864
twisted pine1866
Monterey pine1868
tanekaha1875
chir1882
slash-pine1882
celery-leaved pine1883
knee-pine1884
knobcone pine1884
matsu1884
meadow pine1884
Alaska pine1890
limber pine1901
bristlecone pine1908
o-matsu1916
insignis1920
radiata1953
1853 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 9) at Arrow Root Florida arrow-root is derived from Zamia integrifolia or Z. pumila, Sugar pine.
1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. xi. 188 In this part of the country the pine-trees are of an immense size... The most graceful is what is called the ‘sugar pine’.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 704/1 The sugar pine (Pinus Lambertiana).
1887 Nicholson's Dict. Gard. at Pinus P. Lambertiana. Sugar Pine... California, etc. 1827. This, one of the tallest of all Pines, has an enormous girth.
sugar-pumpkin n. (see quot.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > pumpkin
peponOE
pompion1526
pompillion1598
turquin1600
pumpkin1647
calabash1658
potiron1658
winter squash1771
zucca1818
kabocha1884
sugared pumpkin1884
sugar-pumpkin1905
Ceylon pumpkin1913
trombone1946
Queensland blue1956
1905 Trade Catalogue (Cent. Dict. Suppl.) Negro or Nantucket Sugar Pumpkin. The true old-fashioned black~warted, shelled pumpkin.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > plants yielding sugar or syrup > [noun] > sugar-cane
reeda1398
canamell?a1425
sugar cane1568
sugar1593
sugar-reed1718
plant cane1721
sorgho1760
cane1781
ribbon cane1803
riband cane1811
imphee1857
sweet sorghum1859
sweet sorgho1861
sugar-grass1862
plant1866
broom corn1886
1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis ii. xiii. 227 The Sugar-Reed or Cane.
sugar-tree n. (a) = sugar maple n.; (b) = sugar-bush n. 2; (c) an Australian shrub, Myoporum platycarpum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun]
maple treeOE
maplec1385
plane tree1562
great maple1597
sycamore-tree1597
sycamore1598
sugar-tree1705
sugar maple1731
red maple1767
scarlet maple1768
rock maple1774
white maple1774
silk wood1775
moosewood1778
mountain maple1785
box elder1787
acer1793
sycamore maple1796
mock plane1797
Montpellier maple1797
water maple1803
soft maple1806
sugar-wood1809
swamp maple1810
low maple1813
maple bush1821
Neapolitan maple1833
snake-bark1838
moose-maple1839
sap-tree1843
Manitoba maple1887
Japanese maple1898
curly maple1909
Queensland maple1915
paperbark maple1927
Amur maple1934
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > African trees or shrubs > [noun] > protea or sugar-bush
sugar-tree1705
wagenboom1790
suikerbos1818
sugar-bush1822
wagon-tree1822
Protea1824
blushing bride1917
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > other Australasian trees or shrubs
burrawang1826
water gum1826
kaikomako1832
karaka1834
kawa-kawa1838
peppermint1838
bottle tree1844
ngaio1849
Grevillea1853
red birch1853
wooden pear1860
muskwood1866
sugar-tree1866
tulip-tree1866
hop-bush1883
mock orange1884
mountain beech1884
sage tree1884
tile-seed1884
mutton-bird scrub1889
red birch1889
silver-tree1889
whalebone-tree1889
budda1890
camphor laurel1894
pepperbush1895
mustard bush1898
willow myrtle1898
pigeon wood1899
horizontal scrub1909
turkey-bush1911
pandani1923
mock orange1929
1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia ii. iv. 21 The Honey and Sugar-Trees are likewise spontaneous, near the Heads of the Rivers.
1717 Petiveriana iii. 246 Sugar-tree, grows at the Heads of Rivers, and near Mountains.
1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. 62 One..called here the sugar-tree, from the great quantity of saccharine juice contained in the bottom of its vase-shaped flowers.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1110/1 Sugar-tree, Myoporum platycarpum.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 418 The Sugar-Tree or Sugar-Maple (Acer saccharinum).
1949 Chicago Tribune 13 Mar. i. 6/4 The Crane Naval depot encroached upon some fine old sugar trees in Martin county.
sugar-wood n. = sugar maple n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun]
maple treeOE
maplec1385
plane tree1562
great maple1597
sycamore-tree1597
sycamore1598
sugar-tree1705
sugar maple1731
red maple1767
scarlet maple1768
rock maple1774
white maple1774
silk wood1775
moosewood1778
mountain maple1785
box elder1787
acer1793
sycamore maple1796
mock plane1797
Montpellier maple1797
water maple1803
soft maple1806
sugar-wood1809
swamp maple1810
low maple1813
maple bush1821
Neapolitan maple1833
snake-bark1838
moose-maple1839
sap-tree1843
Manitoba maple1887
Japanese maple1898
curly maple1909
Queensland maple1915
paperbark maple1927
Amur maple1934
1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 68 Covered with the rock or sugar maple, or sugar-wood.
sugar-wrack n. Laminaria saccharina.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > kelp and allies > sugar-wrack or sea-belt
girdle1548
sea-belt1548
sea-girdle1548
sea-wand1841
laminaria1848
sea-tape1861
sea-staff1865
sugar-wrack1882
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 29/2 Kelp..is prepared from the deep-sea tangle (Laminaria digitata), sugar wrack (L. saccharina).
Derivatives
sugar-like n.
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1879 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. Abstr. 360 Its granular, sugar-like appearance.
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Used as a euphemistic substitute for ‘bugger’ or ‘shit’. Cf. sugar int., sugar v. 5.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt
thingOE
cat?c1225
geggea1300
fox-whelpc1320
creaturea1325
whelp1338
scoutc1380
turnbroach14..
foumart1508
shit1508
get?a1513
strummel?a1513
scofting?1518
pismirea1535
clinchpoop1555
rag1566
huddle and twang1578
whipster1590
slop1599
shullocka1603
tailor1607
turnspit1607
fitchewa1616
bulchin1617
trundle-taila1626
tick1631
louse1633
fart1669
insect1684
mully-grub-gurgeon1746
grub-worm1752
rass1790
foutre1794
blister1806
snot1809
skin1825
scurf1851
scut1873
Siwash1882
stiff1882
bleeder1887
blighter1896
sugar1916
vuilgoed1924
klunk1942
fart sack1943
fart-arse1946
jerkwad1980
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 228 He..said flatly:—A sugar!.. He..repeated with the same flat force:—A flaming bloody sugar, that's what he is!
1944 ‘F. O'Connor’ Crab Apple Jelly 30 I liked Josie and I could have killed that little sugar, Hennessey, when he let her down.
1986 T. Barling Smoke ix. 183 Where the sugar have you been?
1995 ‘A. McNab’ Immediate Action (1996) 109 We were issued with our jungle kit the next day... I was like a pig in sugar.
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sugar cookie n. North American a type of sweet biscuit made from a simple dough which is often rolled out and cut into decorative shapes before baking.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > other biscuits
dorcake14..
cracknelc1440
hard breada1500
crackling1598
Naples biscuit1650
gingerbread man1686
chocolate biscuit1702
biscotin1723
sponge biscuit1736
maple biscuita1753
butter biscuit1758
nut1775
Oliver biscuit1786
funeral biscuit1790
rock biscuit?1790
ratafia1801
finger biscuit1812
Savoy drop1816
lady's finger1818
snap1819
Abernethy1830
pretzel1831
wine-biscuit1834
gingersnap1838
captain's biscuit1843
lebkuchen1847
simnel1854
sugar cookie1854
peppernut1862
McClellan pie1863
Savoy ring1866
Brown George1867
beaten biscuit1876
digestive1876
Osborne1876
Bath Oliver1878
marie1878
boer biscuit1882
charcoal biscuit1885
biscotti1886
fairing1888
snickerdoodle1889
pfeffernuss1891
zwieback1894
Nice1895
Garibaldi biscuit1896
Oswegoc1900
squashed fly1900
amaretto1905
boerebeskuit1905
Romary1905
petit beurre1906
Oswego biscuit1907
soetkoekie1910
Oreo1912
custard cream1916
Anzac1923
sweet biscuit1929
langue de chat1931
Bourbon biscuit1932
Afghan1934
flapjack1935
Florentine1936
chocolate chip cookie1938
choc chip cookie1940
Toll House cookie1940
tuile1943
pizzelle1949
black and white1967
Romany Cream1970
papri1978
1854 Graham's Mag. Jan. 59/2 Sugar-cookies that would melt in the mouth.
1913 J. Morris Househ. Sci. & Arts 144 Sugar cookies... Make a dough stiff enough to roll. Roll it out thin on a floured board, cut it with a floured cookie cutter.
2003 A.-M. MacDonald Way Crow Flies 276 Mimi has been busy baking: shortbreads, icebox cookies, sugar cookies.
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sugarcraft n. the art of creating decorations with sugar paste, esp. for use on cakes; a decoration created in this way.
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1958 Times 6 Dec. 2/1 2¼lb Marzipan Cake. Tastefully iced and decorated... 15s. each... Sugarcraft Limited, Thornaby-on-Tees.]
1967 E. Wallace Cake Decorating & Sugarcraft Introd. 9 Colour plays a great part in sugar-craft.
2000 Mainichi Daily News (Japan) (Nexis) 21 Aug. 5 Wedding cakes and anniversary cakes decorated with sugarcrafts, along with sugarcrafts in floral motifs, will be showcased.
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sugar pie n. (a) a pie in which sugar is a major ingredient of the filling, esp. (in Quebec), an open or lattice-topped pie consisting of a pastry crust filled with a mixture of maple sugar or brown sugar and cream; (b) as a term of endearment, esp. for a girl or woman.
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1878 Harper's Mag. Sept. 574/1 You may think it's suthin smart to git married, but mebbe you'll find 'tain't all honey-sugar pie.]
1879 M. C. Tyree Housekeeping Old Virginia (1965) 413 Sugar Pie. Three cupfuls light brown sugar, one-half cupful melted butter, [etc.].
1911 N.Y. Times 9 Mar. 6/4 Letters introduced as evidence were of an affectionate tenor. In one written by Denison to his wife..he referred to her as his ‘Dear Sugar Pie’.
1912 Washington Post 14 May 5/8 Maple Sugar Pie.—Two eggs, one cupful of milk or cream, one cupful of maple sugar, [etc.].
1970 Food à la Canadienne 85 Sugar pie,..mix maple sugar, brown sugar and flour... sprinkle evenly over pie shell... pour cream over sugar mixture and bake [etc.].
1992 R. Kenan Let Dead bury their Dead xi. 264 Why Ida, sugarpie, don't you worry.
1993 Gazette (Montreal) 19 June (TV Times Suppl.) 7/1 A virtual treasure trove of Quebec antiques, its menus are totally in keeping with the surroundings—pea soup, coq au vin and sugar pie listed side by side with such classics as Chateaubriand, rack of lamb and sweetbreads.
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sugar shack n. North American a building in which maple sap is boiled down to make maple sugar or syrup.
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1927 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 14 51 (caption) Sugar maple (acer saccharum) at the right, and in the center a sugar shack of a Chippewa Indian.
2002 K. Paterson Same Stuff as Stars (2004) ix. 94 What she'd thought was a shed in Grandma's yard was really a sugar shack, long past its maple sugaring days.
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colloquial (originally U.S. regional (southern)). to give (a person) some sugar: to kiss (a person). Usually in imperative, as give me some sugar.
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the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [verb (transitive)]
kissc900
reachOE
bassc1500
to lay on the lips1530
bussa1566
swap1577
smouch1588
lip1605
bause1607
suaviate1650
to pree a person's mouth1724
accolade1843
to give (someone) onec1882
to give (a person) some sugar1921
steups1967
1921 Rep. Court of Appeals Georgia 26 77 He caught her by the arm, ‘mashed’ her arm three times, leaned his face over close to hers, and said, ‘Give me some sugar’.
1975 Chicago Defender 16 Oct. 25/1 Hey, sweety, give Daddy some sugar.
1980 N.Y. Times 16 Nov. (Educ. section) 14/2 Sternly she lectures on the necessity of education, coaxes a kiss from the child, saying, ‘Give me some sugar’.
2005 S. Dominus in G. Field Sex & Sensibility 98 When he wanted a kiss, his eyes would go smoky and he'd say, ‘Come here and give me some sugar’.
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sugarv.
/ˈʃʊɡə/, U.S. /ˈʃʊɡər/ 1. absolute.1834 M. Edgeworth Helen III. iv. 75 He sugared, and creamed, and drank, and thought, and spoke not.1850 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 194 [She] creams and sugars as if her hands dallied over a labour of love.
a. transitive. To mix, cover, sprinkle, or sweeten with sugar.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > sweeten [verb (transitive)]
sweetc1000
dulcorate?a1425
doucea1475
sugar1530
sweeten1552
condulcate1569
dulcerate?1586
nectarize1592
dulcify1599
asweeten1605
ensweeten1607
besugar1611
endulce1611
indulcate1628
besweeten1648
dulcescate1657
obdulcorate1657
edulcorate1661
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > sweetening > sweeten [verb (transitive)] > with sugar
sugar1530
besugar1611
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 743/1 I suger, I make swete with suger, je sucre.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §16 With Water thick Sugred.
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum Mm 3 b To Sugar all Sorts of small Fruit.
1806 R. Southey Let. to M. Barker Rum and water..sugared to the utmost.
1824 Ld. Grenville Nugæ Metricæ 87 We now sugar our cups as freely as our ancestors spiced and drugged them.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. v. li. 133 When I sugar my liquor.
b. in figurative context (cf. sense 2).
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1610 R. Abbot Old Waye 9 To Suger the brims of their intoxicated Cups, that men the more greedily..may drinke those venimous potions.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 320 Instead of (Master) call him (Father) sugering the bitter potion they were to minister.
1654 T. Fuller Comment on Ruth 170 in 2 Serm. One Dramme whereof is able to sugar the most wormewood affliction.
1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen 339 Noviciats in the spiritual Life are often gratified with such Sugarings for their Encouragement; but Bread is for grown Persons.
c. intransitive. To spread sugar mixed with beer, gum, etc. upon trees or the like in order to catch moths. Also transitive with the tree as object.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > hunt specific animal [verb (intransitive)] > catch insects with treacle
sugar1857
treacle1905
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [verb (transitive)] > catch insects with treacle
sugar1857
treacle1905
1857 [implied in: Zoologist 15 5649 Sugaring by night is certainly very profitable for Lepidoptera, ants and cockroaches. (at sugaring n. 3)].
1882 [implied in: Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 32 This mode of collecting is called ‘sugaring’, and is somewhat uncertain, as on some nights the sugar will be covered with Moths, and on others you will scarcely find one. (at sugaring n. 3)].
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Aug. 3/1 They were out late ‘sugaring for moths’.
1892 F. E. Beddard Animal Coloration iii. 84 Any lepidopterist who has ‘sugared’ in the New Forest.
1902 S. S. Sprigge Industr. Chevalier vii. 165 There are crowds of them,..who go out beating bushes, tapping palings, and sugaring trees.
2. absolute.a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 215 These sentences to sugar, or to gall, Being strong on both sides, are equiuocall. View more context for this quotation
a. figurative. To make sweet, agreeable, or palatable. to sugar the pill = to gild the pill at pill n.3 3b.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > action of making pleasant > make pleasant [verb (transitive)]
sugar1412
saucec1530
gratify1577
sweetena1586
candy1592
rose-water1655
candify1777
genialize1821
sugar-coat1870
treacle1873
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] > make pleasant
honeyc1390
sugar1412
sugar1603
sleek1871
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy Prol. 57 That wyth thyn hony swete Sugrest tongis of rethoricyens.
c1475 ( in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 145 Thy right ay sugre with remyssioun.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxvii. sig. Zz3 The messenger..hauing euer vsed to sugre any thing which his Maister was to receaue.
1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 51 To baite the people, and sugar their subiection.
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 194 Bad love is sugered full of quaint wantonesses.
1681 Heraclitus Ridens 5 July 2/1 Jest. Oh! Mr. Shamm's..turn'd true Protestant. Earn. Nay, I thought so by their sugaring the Oaths.
1794 Ld. St. Helens Let. 14 Oct. in A. Paget Paget Papers (1896) I. 66 They [sc. the Prussian Cabinet] have no right to complain, as I observe that you continued to gild and sugar over the pill which you were directed to administer.
1878 C. Gibbon For the King (new ed.) iii Madam, I can sugar my pills, but I cannot sugar my words.]
1936 V. W. Brooks Flowering of New Eng. xv. 287 He liked to administer doses of moral quinine, and he never thought of sugaring his pills.
1954 N. Mitford Madame de Pompadour xviii. 237 To sugar the pill of what was, in fact, his dismissal, a Cardinal's hat was procured for Bernis by Stainville.
1955 E. Pound Section: Rock-drill lxxxix. 55 Louis Philippe suggested that Jackson stand firm And not sugar his language.
1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends v. ii. 521 The bishop sugared the request with his smile.
1978 P. Bailey Leisure & Class in Victorian Eng. ii. 54 The entertainments..were devised to sugar the pill of instruction.
b. with over.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] > make pleasant
honeyc1390
sugar1412
sugar1603
sleek1871
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vi Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης Pref. sig. Bv The common grounds of Tyranny and Popery, sugard a little over.
1686 H. More Let. 22 Feb. in J. Norris Theory & Regulation Love (1688) 217 A sin..sugar'd over with the circumstance of Jucundum or Utile or both.
1830 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters (ed. 2) II. 77 Burke..endeavoured to soothe down his rugged spirit and sugar over the bitterness of his nature.
1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. ix. 152 Names..with which this world sugars over its dark guilt.
c. To flatter. Also const. up.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb (transitive)]
flatter?c1225
flackera1250
slickc1250
blandishc1305
blandc1315
glozec1330
beflatter1340
curryc1394
elkena1400
glaverc1400
anointa1425
glotherc1480
losenge1480
painta1513
to hold in halsc1560
soothe1580
smooth1584
smooth1591
soothe1601
pepper1654
palp1657
smoothify1694
butter1700
asperse1702
palaver1713
blarney1834
sawder1834
soft-soap1835
to cock up1838
soft-solder1838
soother1842
behoney1845
soap1853
beslaver1861
beslobber1868
smarm1902
sugar1923
sweetmouth1948
smooth-talk1950
1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 300 To sugar a person up, flatter quelqu'un.
1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep ii. 25 It won't get you anything. Sugaring them never does.
1958 R. Stout And Four to Go iii. 172 There was no point in trying to sugar him. The damage..had been done the second he saw me.
1962 W. Faulkner Reivers x. 219 When I sugars up a woman, it aint just empty talk.
3. intransitive usually sugar off: in U.S. and Canada, in the manufacture of maple-sugar, to complete the boiling down of the syrup in preparation for granulation.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [verb (intransitive)] > boil down maple sap
sugar off1836
1836 in C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada App. 316 Those that sugar-off outside the house have a wooden crane fixed against a stump.
1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. i. 185 The neighbors, boys and girls, come in at the ‘sugaring off’.
1884 G. E. Blakelee Industr. Cycl. 432 If it is noticed while sugaring off that the syrup is scorched.
1892 W. D. Howells Mercy 17 Families that you find up in the hills, where the whole brood study Greek while they are sugaring off in the spring.
4. Cambridge University Rowing slang. To shirk while pretending to row hard. Also transferred.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > misrepresent [verb (transitive)] > by exaggeration
sugar1882
oversell1928
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > take part in boat racing or race [verb (intransitive)] > actions in rowing race
paddle1697
to row over1830
bump1861
sugar1882
1882 ‘F. Anstey’ Vice Versâ viii. 166 Although (to use a boating expression) he ‘sugared’ with some adroitness, he was promptly found out, for his son had been a dashing and plucky player.
1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang (1897) 307/2.
1894 Daily News 6 Feb. 3/5 Now do look alive, number ninety and five, You're ‘sugaring’.
1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 48 Don't sugar—four.
1906 G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Apr. in Florence Farr, Shaw, Yeats (1946) 26 Your standard of work [sc. in acting]..is far too low... You sugar disgracefully except where you see your way to an effect.
5. Used in imprecations, esp. as past participle: = blow v.1 29. euphemistic.
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [verb (transitive)] > oaths other than religious or obscene
confoundc1330
founda1382
hanga1400
whip1609
rat1691
fire1730
repique1760
curse1761
blow1781
blister1840
sugar1886
1886 Mrs. H. Wood in Argosy 41 270 ‘Stephenson says he had blue eyes. Now Dick's are brown.’ ‘Eyes be sugared,’ retorted the lawyer.
1891 H. Herman His Angel 66 Let them say what they like an' be sugared, my darling.
1903 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 107 War's declared at midnight. Pedantics be sugared!
1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 194 'Ow we're sugared about by the old men ('Eavy-sterned amateur old men!) That 'amper an' 'inder an' scold men.
1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 78 Real pilot be sugared. Real little show-off, more like!
1962 B. Glanville Diamond xxi. 339 ‘They wouldn't talk to me.’.. ‘Sugar them; you're too good for them.’
6. transitive. To ‘cook’ or ‘doctor’; spec. to give a specious impression of the amount of trade done by (a place of business, etc.). colloquial.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle
defraud1362
deceivec1380
plucka1500
lurch1530
defeata1538
souse1545
lick1548
wipe1549
fraud1563
use1564
cozen1573
nick1576
verse1591
rooka1595
trim1600
skelder1602
firk1604
dry-shave1620
fiddle1630
nose1637
foista1640
doa1642
sharka1650
chouse1654
burn1655
bilk1672
under-enter1692
sharp1699
stick1699
finger1709
roguea1714
fling1749
swindle1773
jink1777
queer1778
to do over1781
jump1789
mace1790
chisel1808
slang1812
bucket1819
to clean out1819
give it1819
to put in the hole1819
ramp1819
sting1819
victimize1839
financier1840
gum1840
snakea1861
to take down1865
verneuk1871
bunco1875
rush1875
gyp1879
salt1882
daddle1883
work1884
to have (one) on toast1886
slip1890
to do (a person) in the eye1891
sugar1892
flay1893
to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895
con1896
pad1897
screw1900
short-change1903
to do in1906
window dress1913
ream1914
twist1914
clean1915
rim1918
tweedle1925
hype1926
clip1927
take1927
gazump1928
yentz1930
promote1931
to take (someone) to the cleaners1932
to carve up1933
chizz1948
stiff1950
scam1963
to rip off1969
to stitch up1970
skunk1971
to steal (someone) blind1974
diddle-
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xv. 239 Out of the six thousand mats [sc. bags of rice], only twenty were found to have been sugared; in each we found..about twelve pounds of drug.
1894 Daily News 26 Dec. 5/3 ‘Sugaring a house’..in Birmingham..denoting a system of creating a fictitious appearance of business by privately giving away money to be spent at its bars.
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sugarint.
/ˈʃʊɡə/, U.S. /ˈʃʊɡər/ Originally U.S.
Used as a mild substitute for a swear word, esp. expressing annoyance or disgust.Often regarded as a euphemism for shit int.
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1883 G. W. Peck Peck's Bad Boy 268 ‘O, sugar, I don't want to tell’, said the boy, as he blushed.
1896 Harper's Mag. Mar. 574/2 The Virginian was heard drawling to himself: ‘Alfred and Christopher. Oh, sugar!’ And they found pleasure in the delicately chosen shade of this oath.
1916 E. H. Porter Just David xviii Sugar, kid, 'course there would! Gosh, but you be a checkerboard o' sense an' nonsense, an' no mistake!
1966 R. Stone Hall of Mirrors 8 ‘Sugar’, the Bible salesman said... ‘I thought I lost something.’
1993 Guardian 26 July ii. 7/3 ‘Oh sugar!’ said Sister Irene... The black-faced lamb she was feeding had made a puddle on the floor.
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int.1883- balancecrane
- balanced
- balanced polymorphism
- balancefish
- balanceframe
- balanceholder
- balanceknife
- balancemaker
- balanceman
- balancemaster
- balancement
- balancemistress
- balancer
- balancer mash
- balancer meal
- balancereef
- balancereefed
- balancers
- balances
- balanceseat
- balancespring
- balancestaff
- balancestep
- balancewatch
- balancewheel