sugary

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH

Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH

Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā)

Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.

Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor.

Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.

Old Italian zuccherobor.

Old French çucrebor.

Middle English sugre

English sugar

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English sugary

From sugar + -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈʃʊɡəɹi/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈʃʉɡəɾe/
• (Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈʃʉɡəɹe/

Adjective

sugary (comparative sugarier, superlative sugariest)

1. Of food, drink, etc., containing or covered with a large amount of sugar.

   Synonym: sugared

   • 2015 June 19, Jennifer Cohen, “Always busy? 8 ways to stay fit”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     By always having water on hand, you’ll be more likely to skip soda or other sugary beverages, which saves you a ton of calories.

2. (figurative, somewhat derogatory) Exaggeratedly sweet and pleasant, often to the point of aversion.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 163:

     Whenever young lovers tied the knot, some wedding guest would inevitably beseech the reception band to play the sugary strains of this song.

3. (dated) Fond of sweets.

Derived terms

• nonsugary
• oversugary
• sugarily
• sugariness
• unsugary

Related terms

• brown-sugary

Translations

covered with or containing a large amount of sugar

• Bulgarian: захарен (zaharen)
• Esperanto: sukera
• Estonian: magus (et)
• Finnish: sokerinen (fi)
• French: mielleux (fr)
• German: gezuckert (de), zuckerhaltig (de)
• Hindi: मीठा (hi) (mīṭhā)
• Hungarian: cukros (hu)
• Icelandic: sætur (is)
• Ido: sukra (io), sukrizita (io)
• Italian: zuccherino (it), zuccheroso (it), mellifluo (it), sdolcinato (it), mieloso (it), zuccherifero
• Japanese: 甘い (ja) (あまい, amai)
• Ladino:

  Latin: dulse

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sukkerholdig

• Papiamentu: dushi
• Polish: cukrowy (pl)
• Portuguese: açucarado (pt)
• Romanian: mieros (ro)
• Russian: сла́дкий (ru) (sládkij)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: njálggat

• Scottish Gaelic: milis
• Spanish: dulce (es)
• Ukrainian: солодкий (uk) (solodkyj)
• Urdu: میٹھا (mīṭhā)

excessively sweet

• German: zuckrig (de), süßlich (de), übersüßt
• Polish: przesłodzony

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• Persian: ^{(please verify)} شکری (fa) (šekari)

Noun

sugary (plural sugaries)

1. A place where maple-juice is manufactured.
2. A place where sugar is manufactured.

Derived terms

• maple sugary

Anagrams

• Yasgur