sugar

noun

1. (uncountable)A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.

   “To a pound of gooseberries take a pound and a half of double-refined sugar. Clarify the sugar with water, a pint to a pound of sugar, and when the syrup is cold, put the gooseberries single in your preserving pan, put the syrup to them, and set them on a gentle fire.”

   “There appears to be no prospect of success in attempting to combat the crisis by international arrangement, and any improvement in sugar prices can only be looked for from a diminution of the production, either as a consequence of deficient crops, or of a reduction in manufacture.”

   “Even in extreme cases such as chemical pollution in the Florida Everglades from heavily subsidized sugar farming, strong regulations are routinely blocked by industry.”

2. (countable)Any specific variety of sugar.

   “The experience of sugar planters in Louisiana this year in holding their sugars in warehouse for future sales at better prices has revealed again, as it has done heretofore, the fact that the presence of moisture in the sugars is inimical to their maintaining their standard of quality”

3. (countable)Any of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes.

   “At the end of the second week there were less reducing sugars in the unpruned plants than in the previous week, but those in the pruned plants were the same.”

   “Generally speaking, plants have a much greater variety of sugars and linkages than animal tissues have.”

   “The major free sugars in plants are the monosaccharides, glucose and fructose (and the disaccharide sucros), together with traces of xylose, rhamnose and galactose.”

   “Although H. bertonii relies on scale insects to prepare its parasitism site on plants, it directly absorbs and utilizes plant sugars.”

4. (countable)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 slice of lemon and two sugars, please.” “You needn't have said that. I know how you like your tea. I know how you like everything.””

   “Skim milk, two sugar.”

   “Then there are the coffees, one with two sweeteners and no milk, one with one sweetener and milk, one with three sugars and a dash of milk, one with one sugar and lots of milk and finally her Uncle Samad who says that anything is fine.”

5. (countable, uncountable)A bowl or other container of sugar.

   “Pass the sugar, please”

6. (countable)A term of endearment.

   “I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.”

   “Sugar, ah honey honey / You are my candy girl / And you've got me wanting you”

7. (slang, uncountable)Affection shown by kisses or kissing.

   “Gimme some sugar, baby.”

8. (Southern, US, slang, uncountable)Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.

   “I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.”

   “There are depths and heights of beauty in him beyond tears - but there is no sugar, not even any honey.”

   “The crossdresser is showing the desire to be "sugar and spice" through feminine clothing and through the expression of feminine feelings.”

   “Because of Patrick's mannerisms, the players teased him by referring to him as “Sweetness” or saying that he had “sugar” in his pants.”

9. (informal, uncountable)Diabetes.

   “One respondent said that he had been told by his doctor that he had 'sugar' and diabetes, thus affirming for him the distinctiveness of the two illnesses. The distinction made sense to some of them as the relationship between diabetes and 'sugar' seemed to relate to their experiences of the West Indies, where 'sugar' was believed to be rare and diabetes common.”

   “The veterinarian said his real problem was that he had sugar, and not to concentrate on the problem with his eyes.”

   “Don't you love it when you start a new Disease - the pamphlets, the prescriptions, the attention? And the past turning ironic, cloudy, as if you'd added a chemical - my house painter saying he has sugar, reminding me of my mother demanding the sweet drool from every baby.”

   “The doctor told me I had sugar and would have to take pills.”

   “The memorable event was watching my father test urine, his or that of sundry other folks who had “sugar”, as diabetes was known in the rural hills of Jamaica where I grew up.”

10. (countable, dated, uncountable)Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.

    “Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.”

    “Mons. Lemery is of Opinion that Sweetness proceeds from a close Mixture of an Acid with a Sulphur, or with an Oyl that temperates and corrects it; he supports his Conjecture by the instance of Sugar of Saturn, so called from its Sweetness, which is Lead, a Metal insipid in its self, but very Sulphureous, dissolved by an Acid.”

    “The fluor acid, the acid of sugar, of phosphorus, and vitriol, separate magnelia from the acid of arsenic; but the acid of tartar, united with arsenicated magnesia, is generally found to compose a triple salt.”

    “Sugar of milk is now produced by partly chemical means from milk-whey, the product being about two and a half pounds per hundred pounds of whey.”

11. (countable, uncountable)Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
12. (US, slang, uncountable)Heroin.
13. (US, dated, slang, uncountable)Money.
14. (countable, uncountable)Syntactic sugar.

    “However, this bookkeeping is much less local syntax and sugar.”

15. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter S.

verb

1. (transitive)To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

   “John heavily sugars his coffee.”

   “See, I've put sugar-plums on his coat for fancy buttons, sugared his shirt-frill, and put on a red almond to his hat-front.”

   “"There spoke the real British scorn," she said, sugaring her tea, "the fine British contempt for every other nation."”

   “Moreover, the residents recalled that the aristocrat's pet canary had become like a personal retainer, waking his master in the morning and sugaring his drink.”

2. (transitive)To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

   “She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.”

   “He also published the "Weekly Recorder," an indefinite title, which was his way of sugaring what soon became in the region where it was published, Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, a very bitter pill.”

   “She shook her head sadly at him. "No, it won't do, Arthur. I'm not in a mood to be sugared."”

   “But step by step, aided by Claude Morin's arguments, Lévesque had led the party through the process of sugaring what he saw as the pill of independence.”

3. (Canada, US, regional)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 sugar off, I prefer using a kettle that will hold about half a. barrel; and boil over a brisk, steady fire, till on dropping some of the syrup into cold water it will break like glass, then dip it into wooden trays to cool, and when it is grained stir it briskly.”

   “A long time ago my grandmother and I used to boil maple sap. When she sugared off, I stood there.”

   “During the spring in Quebec and Ontario, maple syrup is harvested, or "sugared off," a process which is usually celebrated as a social event.”

4. To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.

   “Some entomologists assert that it is useless to sugar when ivy is in bloom.”

   “The latter are best taken by "sugaring" — painting patches of mixed beer and sugar on a series of tree trunks, and making several rounds at twilight with a lantern and a cyanide bottle.”

   “Sugaring attracts some species of moth that do not readily come to light.”

5. (transitive)To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.

   “You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […]”

   “Sure, you could sugar the latter to look like the former (effectively implementing closures as objects), but it seems simpler to just allow the former.”

6. (transitive)To compliment (a person).
7. To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.

intj

1. Minced oath of shit.

   “Oh, sugar!”

   “"Oh, sugar! I suppose that's so," reflected Tobias, filling his pipe.”

   “But they do not even hope for such a thing in '08, and fear far worse: Sister Suzanne Thibault, a lifelong Republican so mild she shouts, “Oh, sugar!” when annoyed, posits that if Hillary Clinton were nominated, “She'd get killed, literally assassinated. We have too many right-wing people out there who would do that."”

   ““Oh, sugar.” His room was empty.”

name

1. A surname.