sugar

Meanings

Noun

• 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 kiss.
• 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

• 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.

Interjection

• Used in place of shit!

Related

Similar words

• sweeten
• sweeten, sugar-coat

Origin

• From Middle English sugre, sucre, from Middle French sucre, from Old French çucre (circa 13th century), from Medieval Latin zuccarum, from Old Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكَّر, from Persian شکر, from Middle Persian, 𐫢𐫞𐫡, from Sanskrit शर्करा ("ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel"). Akin to Old Armenian սորկա (sorka) and Ancient Greek κρόκη ("pebble"). jaggery.