sugar
/ˈʃʊɡɚ/ noun A1- A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.
- Any specific variety of sugar.
- Any of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes.
- A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink. · He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
- A bowl or other container of sugar. · Pass the sugar, please
- A term of endearment. · I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
- Affection shown by kisses or kissing.
- Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality. · I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
Plural sugars
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Are you interested in the sugar question?” asked the editor of the ministerial paper.
The editor was reading, with apparent delight, a leading article in the same paper on beet-sugar, probably a composition of his own.
“I’m very sorry, indeed,” said Dorothy, who was truly frightened to see the Witch actually melting away like brown sugar before her very eyes.
“Well now--if it isn’t too much trouble--I might as well--that is--I’d like to look at--at--some sugar.”
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