sugar

Plural: sugars

Noun

• a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
• an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain
• informal terms for money
• Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
• A specific variety of sugar.
• Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
• A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
• A term of endearment.
• Affection shown by kisses or kissing.
• Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
• Diabetes.
• Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
• Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
• Heroin.
• Money.
• Syntactic sugar.

Verb

Verb Forms: sugared, sugaring, sugars

• To cover or sweeten with sugar.
• sweeten with sugar
  • "sugar your tea"
• To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
• To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
• 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.
• To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
• To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
• To compliment (a person).
• To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.

Intj

• Shit!

Examples

• He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
• I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
• I tried to SUGAR-coat my low score, but the numbers on the board didn’t lie.
• I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
• John heavily sugars his coffee.
• Oh, sugar!
• She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
• Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.

Synonyms

boodle, bread, cabbage, carbohydrate, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, refined sugar, saccharide, saccharify, scratch, shekels, simoleons, wampum, Big H, H, Wearside), babber, babe, baby, babycakes, bae, boy, brown, brown sugar, bubba, bujj, bully, buttercup, chickabiddy, chickadee, chuck, cupcake, cutie, dag, darling, dear, dear heart, dearest, dearie, dearling, diacetylmorphine, dialectal (chiefly Geordie, diamorphine, dog food, doll, doodlebug, dope, dove, duck, ducky, dumpling, fam, heart, heartface, heartling, heartmate, henry, heroin, hinny, hon, honey, honey bun, honeybug, honeybunch, honeybunny, honeycakes, honeypie, horse, informal or poetic), jewel, jo, junk, kidder, lambchop, lambkin, lass (archaic except UK, liefling, little one, love, lovebug, loveling, lovie, luvvy, m'dear, miting, moppet, mopsy, mouse, muck, mud, muffin, muss, old bean, old sport, pally, pet, petal, poppet, pug, pumpkin, pussums, pussy, ron, sausage, scag, schnookums, shug, smack, snicklefritz, snookums, snuggums, spider, squishy, sug, sugar, sugar baby, sugar beet, sugar-coat, sugar-plum, sugarpie, sweet pea, sweetcheeks, sweeten, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetie pie, sweetling, sweets, treasure, white lady, whiteboy, woobie, yam yam

Related Words

-ose, glyco-

Anagrams of sugar