sugar

Meaning

Noun

1. Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
2. A specific variety of sugar.
3. Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
4. A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
5. A term of endearment.
6. (slang) Affection shown by kisses or kissing.
7. (slang) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
8. (informal) Diabetes.
9. Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
10. Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
11. (slang) Heroin.
12. (slang) Money.
13. Syntactic sugar.

Verb

1. To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
2. To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
3. In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.
4. To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
5. To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
6. To compliment (a person).
7. To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.

Intj

Shit!

Synonyms

sweeten

candy

🍬

saccharide

refined sugar

saccharify

sweet

honey

🍯

syrup

lolly

loot

lucre

pelf

moolah

bread

🍞

dinero

simoleons

sugar cane

boodle

dough

scratch

cabbage

sucrose

sugarcoat

gelt

carbohydrate

clams

kale

wampum

lettuce

granulated sugar

shekels

butter tart

brown sugar

darling

flatter

flying squirrel

glider

jaggery

raw sugar

salary

season

spice

sugarcane

sugary

sweetheart

sweets

wage

white sugar

diabetes

heroin

Tom Collins

strong drug

candied sugar

mint jelly

pinch cake

crushed sugar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English sugre, sucre, from Middle French sucre, from Old French çucre (circa 13th century), from Old Italian zucchero (or another vernacular of Italy), from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar), from Middle Persian [script needed] (škl), 𐫢𐫞𐫡 (šqr /⁠šakar⁠/), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel”). Akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”). Doublet of jaggery and sucro-.