sugar
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sugar/ˈʃʊɡə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a sweet crystalline substance obtained especially from sugar cane and sugar beet, consisting essentially of sucrose and used as a sweetener in food and drink.
- 2 Biochemistry any of the class of soluble, crystalline, typically sweet-tasting carbohydrates found in living tissues and exemplified by glucose and sucrose.
- 3 informal, chiefly N. Amer. used as a term of endearment.
- 4 informal a narcotic drug, especially heroin or LSD.
- 1 sweeten, sprinkle, or coat with sugar.
■ make more agreeable or palatable.
- 2 (as noun sugaring) a method of removing unwanted hair by applying a mixture of lemon juice, sugar, and water to the skin and then peeling it off together with the hair.
- 3 (as noun sugaring) N. Amer. the boiling down of maple sap until it thickens into syrup or crystallizes into sugar.
- 4 (usu. as noun sugaring) Entomology spread a sugar mixture on a tree trunk in order to catch moths.
– derivatives
sugarless adjective.
sugarless adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. sukere, from Ital. zucchero, prob. via med. L. from Arab. sukkar.
'sugar' also found in these Oxford entries:
advocaat
- arabinose
- aspartic acid
- bagasse
- barley sugar
- Bath bun
- beet
- beignet
- blood sugar
- boiled sweet
- brandy butter
- brittle
- brown sugar
- buttercream
- butterscotch
- cachaca
- caipirinha
- cake
- candy
- candyfloss
- caramel
- cassareep
- caster sugar
- castor sugar
- chai
- chaptalization
- Chelsea bun
- chutney
- cobbler
- coconut ice
- comfit
- confectioner's sugar
- cracknel
- crème brûlée
- crop-over
- crystallize
- damson cheese
- demerara sugar
- deoxyribose
- diet
- diosgenin
- dredge
- drinking chocolate
- dry goods
- eggnog
- flummery
- fondant
- fructose
- fruit sugar
- frumenty
