sugar

a sweet crystallizable material that consists wholly or essentially of sucrose, colorless or white when pure tending to brown when less refined, obtained commercially from sugarcane or sugar beet and less extensively from sorghum, maples, and palms, and important as a source of dietary carbohydrate and as a sweetener and preservative of other foods

The first known use: in the 14th century

Word Structure

5 Letters, 2 Syllable

sugar

4 Phonemes

S u g er

onset, rime

- -

Morpheme

sugar

Sentence Examples

Coffee with two sugars and milk, please.

The clean fruit is then dried and sugared.

They've been sugaring since they were children.

Common Phrases

(as) sweet as sugar

Exceptionally sweet, friendly, or kindly.

a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down

Something good makes something bad more tolerable.

a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down

Something good makes something bad more tolerable.

give me some sugar

Give me a kiss. "Me" can be replaced with one's title in relation to the person (e.g. mother, grandmother).

Pretty please with sugar on top?

An emphatic or exaggerated way of asking "please." Sometimes used sarcastically or ironically.

sugar and spice (and everything nice)

Of a female, very pleasant and amiable. Perhaps derived from the 19th-century nursey rhyme, "What Are Little Boys Made of?", which says that girls are made of "sugar and spice and everything nice."

sugar daddy

A man who gives his much younger romantic or sexual partner a lot of money and gifts. Often implies that the financial aspect is in lieu of genuine romantic interest from one or both people in the relationship.

sugar mama

A woman who gives her much younger romantic or sexual partner a lot of money and gifts. Often implies that the financial aspect is in lieu of genuine romantic interest from one or both people in the relationship.

sugar off

To create maple sugar or especially syrup by boiling the sap extracted from maple trees. Primarily heard in US, Canada.

sugar pill

A pill that does not contain medicine (and may not even contain sugar, as the term "sugar pill" is used broadly); a placebo.

sugar the pill

To make something bad, unpleasant, or dissatisfactory easier to cope with, endure, or accept.

sugarcoat (something)

To say, explain, or present something in a manner that is easier to accept, understand, cope with, or endure.

sugarcoat a/the bitter pill

To make something bad, unpleasant, or dissatisfactory easier to cope with, endure, or accept.

sugarcoat the pill

To make something bad, unpleasant, or dissatisfactory easier to cope with, endure, or accept.

sugar-stick

The penis.

Uncle Sam

A personification of the United States or its government, typically portrayed as a man with a white beard.

Uncle Sugar

The United States of America or its government. A play on the initials U.S., used especially in (often sarcastic or sardonic) reference to foreign financial aid provided by the United States

Related Words

Sound the same but are spelled differently.

Collocations

The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.

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