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{{also|Sugar|sugár}}
==English==
{{wikipedia}}
{{R:Britannica 1911|Sugar}}

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|en|shugar||obsolete}}

===Etymology===
{{dercat|en|inc-pro|iir-pro|ine-pro}}
From {{inh|en|enm|sugre}}, {{m|enm|sucre}}, from {{der|en|frm|sucre}}, from {{der|en|fro|çucre}} (circa 13th century), from {{der|en|roa-oit|zucchero}} (or another vernacular of Italy),<ref>{{R:FEW|19|163|sukkar}}</ref> from {{der|en|ar|سُكَّر}}, from {{der|en|fa|شکر|tr=šakar}}, from {{der|en|pal|tr=škl}}, {{m|pal|𐫢𐫞𐫡|ts=šakar}}, from {{der|en|sa|शर्करा||ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel|tr=śárkarā}}.<ref>{{cite-web|title=SUCRE : Etymologie de SUCRE|url=https://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/sucre|work=Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales|year=2012}}</ref> Akin to {{cog|grc|κρόκη||pebble}}. {{doublet|en|jaggery|sucro-}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)/|a=RP}}
* {{enPR|sho͝ogʹər|a=GA}}, {{IPA|en|/ˈʃʊɡɚ/}}
* {{audio|en|En-uk-sugar.ogg|a=UK}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-sugar.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|ʊɡə(ɹ)|s=2}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun|~}}

# {{lb|en|uncountable}} Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from [[sugar cane]] or [[sugar beet]] and used to sweeten food and drink.
#* {{quote-book|en|title=The universal cook: and city and country housekeeper|author=Francis Collingwood|year=1792|passage=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.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xJMEAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22sugar%22&pg=PA279#v=onepage&q=%22sugar%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|journal=The Sugar Cane|volume=27|page=171|passage=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.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8UpNAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22sugar%20prices%22&pg=PA171#v=onepage&q=%22sugar%20prices%22&f=false|date=April 1 1895|issue=309|title=The Present Crisis}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know?|author=Robert Paarlberg|year=2013|passage=Even in extreme cases such as chemical pollution in the Florida Everglades from heavily subsidized '''sugar''' farming, strong regulations are routinely blocked by industry.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AcQ7AAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT109&dq=%22sugar%20farming%22&pg=PT109#v=onepage&q=%22sugar%20farming%22&f=false}}
# {{lb|en|countable}} A specific variety of sugar.
#* {{quote-journal|en|journal=The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer|volume=55|title=Drying Sugars Essential to Their Preservation|passage=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|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C05KAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22sugars%22&pg=PA180#v=onepage&q=%22sugars%22&f=false|date=September 18 1915}}
# {{lb|en|countable|chemistry}} Any of various small [[carbohydrate]]s that are used by [[organism]]s to store energy.
#: {{hyper|en|Thesaurus:carbohydrate}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Effects of partial defoliation at transplanting time on subsequent|author=James E. Kraus|year=1942|passage=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.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkBa8Wt8HAQC&dq=%22sugars%22&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q=%22sugars%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant|author=Peter J. Van Soest|year=1994|passage=Generally speaking, plants have a much greater variety of '''sugars''' and linkages than animal tissues have.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-mwUu6PL1UgC&lpg=PA156&dq=%22sugars%22&pg=PA156#v=onepage&q=%22sugars%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Phytochemical Methods A Guide to Modern Techniques of Plant Analysis|author=A.J. Harborne|year=1998|passage=The major free '''sugars''' in plants are the monosaccharides, glucose and fructose (and the disaccharide sucros), together with traces of xylose, rhamnose and galactose.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vCWHUU6iobwC&lpg=PA236&dq=%22sugars%22&pg=PA236#v=onepage&q=%22sugars%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Plant Surface Microbiology|author=Ajit Varma|year=2007|passage=Although ''H. bertonii'' relies on scale insects to prepare its parasitism site on plants, it directly absorbs and utilizes plant '''sugars'''.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=747-kZT60dcC&lpg=PA159&dq=%22plant%20sugars%22&pg=PA159#v=onepage&q=%22plant%20sugars%22&f=false}}
# {{lb|en|countable}} A small serving of this substance (typically about one [[teaspoon]]), used to sweeten a drink.
#: {{ux|en|He usually has his coffee white with one '''sugar'''.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|journal=The World To-day: A Monthly Record of Human Progress|volume=30|passage=“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.”|year=1916|title=Miss Fanny Goes to Great Lengths|author=Cosmo Hamilton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ve1HAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22two%20sugars%20please%22&pg=PA369#v=onepage&q=%22two%20sugars%20please%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-av|en|actor=Bill Murray|role=Phil|title=Groundhog Day|year=1993|time=1:13:03|passage=Skim milk, two '''sugar'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Outside the Lines|author=Ameera Patel|year=2016|passage=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.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F63kCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA39&dq=%22with%20one%20sugar'%22&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q=%22with%20one%20sugar'%22&f=false}}
# {{lb|en|countable}} {{non-gloss|A term of endearment.}}
#: {{syn|en|Thesaurus:sweetheart}}
#: {{ux|en|I'll be with you in a moment, '''sugar'''.}}
#* {{quote-song|en|text='''Sugar''', ah honey honey / You are my candy girl / And you've got me wanting you|artist=w:The Archies|title=w:Sugar, Sugar|year=1969|album=w:Everything's Archie}}
# {{lb|en|uncountable|slang}} [[affection|Affection]] shown by [[kiss|kisses]] or [[kissing]].
#: {{syn|en|Thesaurus:buss}}
#* {{quote-av|en|actor=Bruce Campbell|role=Ash Williams|title=Army of Darkness|year=1992|passage=Gimme some '''sugar''', baby.}}
# {{lb|en|chiefly|southern|_|US|slang|uncountable}} [[effeminacy|Effeminacy]] in a male, often implying [[homosexuality]].
#: {{ux|en|I think John has a little bit of '''sugar''' in him.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1998|title=Sweetness and Strength|author=Lene Østermark-Johansen|ISBN=1859284523|passage=There are depths and heights of beauty in him beyond tears - but there is no '''sugar''', not even any honey.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1999|title=My Husband Wears My Clothes|author=Peggy J. Rudd|ISBN=096267625X|passage=The crossdresser is showing the desire to be "'''sugar''' and spice" through feminine clothing and through the expression of feminine feelings. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2008 |title=Living Through the Hoop|author=Reuben A. Buford May|ISBN=0814757294|passage=Because of Patrick's mannerisms, the players teased him by referring to him as “Sweetness” or saying that he had “'''sugar'''” in his pants. }}
# {{lb|en|uncountable|informal}} [[diabetes|Diabetes]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2002|title=Researching Cultural Differences in Health|author=Mrs Sheila Hillier; David Kelleher|page=94|ISBN=1134832761|passage=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. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2003|title=Above All We Ask Or Think|author=Tom Lee|page=53|ISBN=1591604249|passage=The veterinarian said his real problem was that he had '''sugar''', and not to concentrate on the problem with his eyes. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2004 |title=Reflections on a Life with Diabetes: A Memoir in Many Voices|author=Diane M. Parker; Ruth E. Mark|page=57|ISBN=1589395964|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2008|title=Suppose Jesus Had Thrown in the Towel and Given Up on Us|author=De'lois Washington McMillan |ISBN=1438921063|passage=The doctor told me I had '''sugar''' and would have to take pills.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2012|title=From Sugar to Splenda|author=Bert Fraser-Reid|ISBN=3642227813|passage=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.}}
# {{lb|en|dated}} Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
#: {{ux|en|'''Sugar''' of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=The Lives of the French, Italian and German Philosophers|author=M. de Fontenelle|passage=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.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGBFAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22sugar%20of%20saturn%22&pg=PA334#v=onepage&q=%22sugar%20of%20saturn%22&f=false|chapter=Upon the Iron of Plants|year=1717}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Physical and chemical essays|author=Torbern Olof Bergman|tlr=E. Cullen|origlang=sv|volume=1|page=448|passage=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.|chapter=Of Magnesia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FxgAAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22sugar%20of%20phosphorus%22&pg=PA448#v=onepage&q=%22sugar%20of%20phosphorus%22&f=false|year=1788}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|journal=The American Sugar Industry and Beer Sugar Gazette|volume=6|page=392|year=1904|passage='''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.|title=Process of Making Milk Sugar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SeQ7AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22sugar%20of%20milk%22&pg=PA392#v=onepage&q=%22sugar%20of%20milk%22&f=false}}
# [[compliment|Compliment]] or [[flattery]] used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
# {{lb|en|US|slang|uncountable}} [[heroin|Heroin]].
#: {{syn|en|Thesaurus:heroin}}
# {{lb|en|US|slang|uncountable|dated}} [[money|Money]]. <!--in e.g. Inner Sanctum radio episode "Death on the Highway"-->
# {{lb|en|programming}} {{cap|syntactic sugar}}.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2005|author=Bruce Ian Mills|title=Theoretical Introduction to Programming|page=180
|passage=However, this bookkeeping is much less local syntax and '''sugar'''.}}

====Hyponyms====
{{col3|en
|title=Hyponyms of sugar (noun)|5-nitro-2-propoxyaniline
|aldose
|alitame
|allose
|altrose
|aspartame
|amylose
|arabinose
|carbohydrate
|cellulose
|cyclamate
|decose
|demerara
|dextrose
|dulcin
|erythritol
|erythrose
|erythrulose
|fructose
|fucose
|furanose
|galactose
|glucose
|glycyrrhizin
|gulose
|heptose
|hexose
|idose
|inulin
|isomalt
|ketose
|lactilol
|lactose
|lyxose
|maltitol
|maltose
|mannitol
|mannose
|monellin
|neohesperidin dihydrochalcone
|neotame
|nonose
|octose
|pentose
|polyol
|psicose
|pyranose
|rhamnose
|ribose
|ribulose
|saccharide
|saccharin
|sedoheptulose
|sorbitol
|sorbose
|steviol glycoside
|stachyose
|sucralose
|sucrose
|tagatose
|talose
|tetrose
|thaumatin
|threose
|trehalose
|triose
|volemitol
|xylitol
|xylose
|xylulose}}

====Meronyms====
{{col3|en
|title=Meronyms of sugar (noun)|agave syrup
|barley malt syrup
|blanco directo
|birch syrup
|brazzein
|brown rice syrup
|caramel
|corn syrup
|fruit syrup
|golden syrup
|[[goor]], [[gur]]
|high fructose corn syrup
|holing cane
|honey
|karupatti
|jaggery
|lugduname
|maple syrup
|mizuame
|molasses
|muscovado
|panela
|[[panocha]], [[panoche]]
|rum
|Steen's cane syrup
|stevia
|sweetener
|sweet sorghum
|syrup
|treacle
|turbinado}}

====Derived terms====
{{col4|en
|10x sugar|cube sugar|sugar ant|sugar belly|sugar bro|sugar cone
|acid of sugar
|acorn sugar
|ambered sugar
|[[amino sugar]], [[aminosugar]]
|anhydrosugar
|anhydrous sugar
|animal sugar
|aphis-sugar
|[[as sweet as sugar]]
|baker's sugar
|Barbados sugar
|[[barley sugar]], [[barley-sugar]]
|bar sugar
|bastard sugar
|beechwood sugar
|beetroot sugar
|[[beet sugar]], [[beet-sugar]]
|berry sugar
|besugar
|birch sugar
|black sugar
|blanch sugar
|blood sugar
|brain sugar
|blown sugar
|boiled sugar
|brown sugar|magic sugar|sugar down|sugar nips|sugar up
|burnt sugar
|candied sugar|antisugar|arsenosugar|azasugar|azidosugar|bromosugar|chitosugar|chlorosugar|deoxysugar|dideoxysugar|fluorosugar|galactosugar|halosugar|iminosugar|iodosugar|liposugar|monosugar|multisugar|oligosugar|polysugar|pseudosugar|sugarcoated|sugarcraft|sugarfree|sugarful|sugarholic|sugarlike|sugarmaker|sugarmaking|sugarman|sugarpie|sugarstick|sugartits
|candy sugar
|[[cane sugar]], [[cane-sugar]]
|[[caramelised sugar]], [[caramelized sugar]]
|caramel sugar
|[[caster sugar]], [[castor sugar]]
|CDP-sugar
|centrifugal sugar
|cinnamon sugar
|clarified sugar
|clayed sugar
|coarse sugar
|coffee sugar
|colored sugar crystals
|compound sugar
|compressible sugar
|[[confectioner's sugar]], [[confectioners' sugar]]
|corn sugar
|corn sugar syrup
|cracked sugar
|crashed sugar
|crude sugar
|crushed sugar
|crystalline sugar|fasting blood sugar|sugar louse
|[[crystallisable sugar]], [[crystallizable sugar]]
|[[crystallised sugar]], [[crystallized sugar]]
|crystal sugar
|culinary sugar
|cytidine diphosphosugar
|[[date sugar]], [[date-sugar]]
|dehydrosugar
|demerara sugar
|[[deoxy sugar]], [[desoxy sugar]]
|desugar<!--computing term?-->
|[[diabetes sugar]], [[diabetic sugar]]
|double-refined sugar
|double sugar
|dTDP-sugar
|English sugar
|essence of sugar
|feathered sugar
|female sugar
|fluid sugar
|flying sugar
|free sugar
|form sugar
|[[fruit sugar]], [[fruit-sugar]]
|gelatin sugar
|granular sugar
|granulated sugar
|[[grape sugar]], [[grape-sugar]]
|green sugar
|hard sugar
|heart sugar
|heavy sugar
|hepatic sugar
|high sugar
|horse sugar
|icing sugar
|invert sugar
|inverted sugar
|kitchen sugar
|lead-sugar
|licorice sugar
|liquid sugar
|liver-sugar
|[[loaf sugar]], [[loaf-sugar]]
|low sugar
|lump of sugar
|lump sugar
|male sugar
|[[malt sugar]], [[malt-sugar]]
|manna sugar
|[[maple sugar]], [[maple-sugar]]
|[[milk sugar]], [[milk-sugar]]
|mill white sugar
|modified Sheather's sugar flotation method
|moist sugar
|w:Mount Sugarloaf|Mount Sugarloaf
|mountain-ash sugar
|muscovado sugar
|muscle sugar
|mushroom sugar
|natural sugar
|neither sugar nor salt
|[[nest sugar]], [[nest-sugar]]
|nib sugar
|nibbed sugar
|nitrosugar
|[[non-sugar]], [[nonsugar]]
|not made of sugar or salt
|nucleoside-diphosphate sugar
|oil sugar
|[[palm sugar]], [[palm-sugar]]
|pearl sugar
|pearled sugar
|pectin sugar
|perilla sugar
|phosphosugar
|pine sugar
|polyisoprenyl phosphate sugar
|[[potato sugar]], [[potato-sugar]]
|pounded sugar
|powder sugar
|powdered sugar
|preserving sugar
|pulled sugar
|raw sugar
|reducing sugar
|refined sugar
|refining sugar
|refuse sugar
|residual sugar
|rimming sugar
|RNA sugar
|rock sugar
|sanding sugar
|sifted sugar
|simple sugar
|soft sugar
|sorghum sugar
|specific soluble sugar
|spun sugar
|stamped sugar
|store sugar
|strained sugar
|starch sugar
|strike of sugar
|sugar-acarus
|sugar acid
|w:Sugar Act
|sugar alcohol
|sugar aldehyde
|sugarally
|[[sugar almond]], [[sugar-almond]]
|[[sugar and honey]]<!--rhyming slang-->
|w:Sugar and Molasses Act
|sugar-ant
|[[sugar apple]], [[sugar-apple]]
|sugar aquatint
|[[sugar-babe]], [[sugar baby]], [[sugar-baby]]
|[[sugarbag]], [[sugar-bag]]
|sugar-bakehouse
|sugar-baker
|sugar-bakery
|sugar band
|sugar basin
|[[sugar bean]], [[sugar-bean]]
|sugar beet
|sugar berg
|[[sugar berry]], [[sugar-berry]], [[sugarberry]]
|sugar-birch
|[[sugar bird]], [[sugar-bird]], [[sugarbird]]
|sugar block
|sugar boogers
|sugar bowl
|sugar-box
|sugar-bread
|sugar brother
|[[sugar bush]], [[sugar-bush]], [[sugarbush]]
|sugar-butter sauce
|sugar buzz
|sugar-cake
|[[sugar camp]], [[sugar-camp]]
|[[sugar candian]], [[sugar-candian]]
|sugar-candied
|[[sugar candy]], [[sugar-candy]]
|[[sugar cane]], [[sugar-cane]], [[sugarcane]] ({{taxfmt|Saccharum officinarum|species}})
|sugar card
|sugar-caster
|sugar cataract
|sugar chain
|sugar charcoal
|sugar-chest
|w:Sugar City
|[[sugar-coat]], [[sugarcoat]]
|sugar-cone
|sugar cookie
|sugar core
|sugar corn
|Sugar Creek<!--not the same as "Sugarcreek"-->
|Sugarcreek<!--not the same as "Sugar Creek"-->
|sugar-creeper
|w:Sugar Crisp
|sugar-crusher
|sugar crust
|[[sugar cube]], [[sugar-cube]]
|sugar-cured
|sugar daddy
|sugar diabetes
|sugar-disease
|sugar-eater
|sugar ester
|sugar-free
|sugar fungus
|sugar-garden
|sugargerry
|sugar glass
|sugar glider
|[[sugar grass]], [[sugar-grass]]
|Sugar Grove
|sugar grove
|[[sugar gum]], [[sugar-gum]]
|sugar hackberry
|sugar high
|Sugar Hill
|sugar honey ice tea
|[[sugar-house]], [[sugarhouse]]
|sugar-icing liver
|sugar indigestion
|sugarish
|Sugar Island
|sugar kelp
|Sugar Land
|Sugarland Run
|sugarleaf
|sugarless
|sugar-like
|sugar-lime
|sugar lips
|[[sugar loaf]], [[sugar-loaf]], [[sugarloaf]]
|sugar-louse
|[[sugar lump]], [[sugar-lump]]
|sugarly
|[[sugar mama]], [[sugar mamma]], [[sugar momma]], [[sugar mummy]]
|sugar-man
|[[sugar maple]], [[sugar-maple]]
|sugar-meat
|[[sugar melon]], [[sugar-melon]]
|sugar mill
|sugar-millet
|sugar mimic
|[[sugar mite]], [[sugar-mite]]
<!--"sugar momma" is listed under "sugar mama" above-->
|Sugar Mountain
|sugar mouse
<!--"sugar mummy" is listed under "sugar mama" above-->
|sugar nib
|sugar nip
|sugar nippers
|sugar-non-specific nuclease
|Sugar Notch
|sugar of acorns
|sugar of Alisaunder
|sugar of Babylon
|sugar of Barbary
|sugar of Candy
|sugar of Cipre
|sugar of flesh
|sugar of iron
|sugar of lead
|sugar of Marrokes
|sugar of milk
|sugar of muscle
|sugar of Saturn
|sugar of steel
|[[sugar on snow]], [[sugar-on-snow]]
|[[sugar orchard]], [[sugar-orchard]]
|sugar palm
|[[sugar paper]], [[sugar-paper]]
|sugar pea
|sugar-pear
|sugar pease
|sugar-pellet
|sugar-penide
|sugar-phosphatase
|sugar-pie
|sugar pill
|[[sugar pine]], [[sugar-pine]]
|sugar plantation
|sugar-plate
|[[sugar plum]], [[sugar-plum]], [[sugarplum]]
|sugar pucker
|sugar puff
|Sugar Puffs
|sugar-pumpkin
|sugar push
|sugar quartz
|sugar rag
|sugar-reed
|sugar-refiner
|[[sugar refinery]], [[sugar-refinery]]
|sugar-refining
|sugar residue
|Sugar River
|sugar-roll
|sugar royal
|sugar-roset
|sugar rush
|sugar sack
|sugar sand
|sugar-sensitivity
|[[sugar shack]], [[sugar shanty]]
|sugar shell
|sugar sickness
|sugar sifter
|[[sugar snap]], [[sugar snap pea]]
|sugar snow
|sugar-snuff
|sugar soap
|sugar-sop
|sugar sorghum
|sugar-spar
|sugar-spirit
|sugar spoon
|sugar squirrel
|sugar stick
|sugar substitute
|sugar sumac
|sugar-sweet
|sugar syrup
|sugar-teat
|sugar test
|sugar thermometer
|sugartime
|[[sugar tit]], [[sugar-tit]]
|sugar tongs
|[[sugar tree]], [[sugar-tree]]
|sugar trough
|[[sugar tumor]], [[sugar tumour]]
|Sugar Valley
|sugar vase
|sugar-vinegar
|sugar-wash
|sugar water
|sugar-weather
|sugar weed
|sugar-wood
|sugar-work
|sugar-worm
|sugar-wrack
|sugary
|superfine sugar
|superior sugar
|sweet as sugar
|syntactic sugar
|table sugar
|threshold sugar
|triple sugar iron agar
|true sugar
|turbinado sugar
|[[uncrystallisable sugar]], [[uncrystallizable sugar]]
|unrefined sugar
|urine sugar
|vanilla sugar
|white sugar
|[[wood sugar]], [[wood-sugar]]
|yellow sugar
|a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down|a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down|anhydro sugar|banded sugar ant|booger sugar|candi sugar|confectioners sugar|deoxy sugar alcohol|lead sugar|made of sugar|nitro sugar|pretty please with sugar on top|sugar and spice|sugar bag|sugar baker|sugar bear|sugar bomb|sugar coat|sugar coated|sugar cream pie|sugar house|sugar in one's tank|sugar mommy|sugar out|sugar parent|sugar paste|sugar phosphate|sugar pie|sugar pimp|sugar report|sugar scoop|sugar skull|sugar walls|sugar-coated|sugar-mill|sure as sugar
}}

====Descendants====
{{col-top|2|desc}}
* {{desc|tpi|suga}}
* {{desc|bor=1|abe|sogal}}
* {{desc|bor=1|cr|ᓲᑳᐤ}}
* {{desc|bor=1|fj|suka}}
* {{desc|bor=1|gil|tioka}}
* {{desc|bor=1|iu|ᓱᑲᒃ}}
* {{desc|bor=1|pqm|sukol}} {{q|or from French}}
* {{desc|bor=1|mi|huka}}
* {{desc|bor=1|mh|juga}}
* {{desc|bor=1|sm|suka}}
* {{desc|bor=1|sn|shuga}}
* {{desc|bor=1|st|tswekere}}
* {{desc|bor=1|tli|shóogaa}}
* {{desc|bor=1|to|suka}}
* {{desc|bor=1|ts|chukela}}
* {{desc|bor=1|tn|sukiri}}
* {{desc|bor=1|unm|shukël}} {{q|or from Dutch}}
* {{desc|bor=1|wls|suka}}
* {{desc|bor=1|zu|ushukela}}
{{col-bottom}}

====Translations====
{{see translation subpage|Noun}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To add sugar to; to [[sweeten]] with sugar.
#: {{ux|en|John heavily '''sugars''' his coffee.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Teddy and His Friends|author=Emilie Foster|year=1876|passage=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.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-1UTMeO9BQEC&dq=%22sugared%20his%22&pg=PA171#v=onepage&q=%22sugared%20his%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|magazine=The Quiver|page=1007|year=1905|passage="There spoke the real British scorn," she said, '''sugaring''' her tea, "the fine British contempt for every other nation."|title=The Duke of Castle Blanco|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vapMAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22sugaring%20her%22&pg=PA1007#v=onepage&q=%22sugaring%20her%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Hidden Minds: A History of the Unconscious|author=Frank Tallis|year=2002|passage=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.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aZqbfUpWTsMC&lpg=PA16&dq=%22sugaring%20his%22&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q=%22sugaring%20his%22&f=false}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
#: {{ux|en|She has a gift for '''sugaring''' what would otherwise be harsh words.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Michigan in her pioneer politics|author=Anson De Puy Van Buren|year=1890|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Give My Love to Maria|author=Mrs. Florence Guertin Tuttle|year=1917|passage=She shook her head sadly at him. "No, it won't do, Arthur. I'm not in a mood to be '''sugared'''."|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ePUcAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22sugared%20what%22&pg=PA134#v=onepage&q=%22sugared%20what%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power|author=Graham Fraser|year=2001|passage=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.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Tx01YC8VMcC&lpg=PA170&dq=%22sugaring%20what%22&pg=PA171#v=onepage&q=%22sugaring%20what%22&f=false}}
# {{lb|en|US|Canada|regional}} In making [[maple sugar]], to complete the process of [[boil]]ing down the [[syrup]] till it is thick enough to [[crystallize]]; to approach or reach the state of [[granulation]]; with the preposition ''off''.
#* {{quote-journal|en|journal=The Ohio Cultivator|year=1851|volume=7|page=91|passage=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.|title=On Making Maple Syrup|author=J. D. H.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|journal=Nindinawemaagan Giwitaa'ayeyii|volume=6|page=55|year=1994|passage=A long time ago my grandmother and I used to boil maple sap. When she '''sugared''' off, I stood there.|title=Sugaring Off}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Canada: A Primary Source Cultural Guide|author=Lois Sakany|year=2004|passage=During the spring in Quebec and Ontario, maple syrup is harvested, or "'''sugared''' off," a process which is usually celebrated as a social event.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JyqGQTuikUYC&lpg=PT97&dq=%22sugared%20off%22%20%22maple%20syrup%22&pg=PT97#v=onepage&q=%22sugared%20off%22%20%22maple%20syrup%22&f=false}}
# {{lb|en|entomology}} To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch [[moth]]s.
#* {{quote-journal|en|magazine=The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine|year=1876|page=207|volume=12|title=Note on sugaring|author=W. Sandison|passage=Some entomologists assert that it is useless to '''sugar''' when ivy is in bloom.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KJsv9O0kw6QC&dq=%22sugaring%22%20%22moths%22&pg=PA207#v=onepage&q=%22sugaring%22%20%22moths%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Grain and Chaff from an English Manor|author=Arthur Herbert Savory|year=1921|passage=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.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PggNAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22sugaring%22%20%22moths%22&pg=PA272#v=onepage&q=%22sugaring%22%20%22moths%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Ecological Census Techniques: A Handbook|author=William J. Sutherland|year=2006|passage='''Sugaring''' attracts some species of moth that do not readily come to light.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rTJdia64ACMC&lpg=PA236&dq=%22sugaring%22%20%22moths%22&pg=PA236#v=onepage&q=%22sugaring%22%20%22moths%22&f=false}}
# {{lb|en|programming|transitive}} To [[rewrite]] ([[source code]]) using [[syntactic sugar]].
#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|year=2002|author=Jonathan Bromley|title=Fixed point arithmetic|newsgroup=comp.arch.fpga
|passage=You can '''sugar''' the syntax of constants thus: {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|year=2006|author=Neil Madden|title=Re: Closures|newsgroup=comp.lang.tcl
|passage=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.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[compliment]] (a person).
# To [[remove]] [[hair]] using a paste of sugar, [[water]]{{,}} and [[lemon juice]].

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|add sugar to}} [[sweeten]]
* {{sense|make less unpleasant}} [[sweeten]], [[sugar-coat]]

====Derived terms====
{{col3|en
|sugared
|sugarer
|sugaring
|sugar off
|sugar the pill
}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|to add sugar to, to sweeten}}
* Arabic:
*: Hijazi Arabic: {{t|acw|حَلَّى|tr=ḥalla}}
* Armenian: {{t-needed|hy}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|加甜|tr=jiātián}}, {{t|cmn|加糖|tr=jiātáng}}
* Danish: {{t|da|søde}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|sukeri}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|sokeroida}}
* French: {{t+|fr|sucrer}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|adozar}}, {{t+|gl|azucrar}}
* Georgian: {{t-needed|ka}}
* German: {{t+|de|zuckern}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|cukroz}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|zuccherare}}
* Persian: {{t|fa|شیرین کردن|tr=širin kardan}}
* Piedmontese: {{t|pms|sucré}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|słodzić|impf}}, {{t|pl|posłodzić|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|açucarar}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|îndulci}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|са́харить|impf}}, {{t+|ru|поса́харить|pf}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|sladkati}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|azucarar}}, {{t|es|endulcorar}}, {{t+|es|endulzar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|sockra}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|şekerlemek}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to make something seem less unpleasant}}
* Danish: {{t|da|indsukre}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pehmentää}}, {{t+|fi|kaunistella}}
* German: {{t+|de|versüßen}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|zuccherare}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|osładzać|impf}}, {{t|pl|osłodzić|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|açucarar}}, {{t+|pt|suavizar}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|îndulci}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|подсласти́ть|pf}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|sladkati}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|azucarar}}, {{t+|es|endulzar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|sockra}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Interjection===
{{en-interj}}

# {{lb|en|minced oath}} [[shit|Shit]]!
#: {{ux|en|Oh, '''sugar!'''}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Tobias O' the Light: A Story of Cape Cod|author=James A. Cooper|year=1920|passage="Oh, '''sugar'''! I suppose that's so," reflected Tobias, filling his pipe.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9hMmAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22oh%20sugar%22&pg=PA100#v=onepage&q=%22oh%20sugar%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear|author=Melinda Henneberger|year=2007|passage=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."|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3B7EaGvIVYC&lpg=PA153&dq=%22oh%20sugar%22&pg=PA153#v=onepage&q=%22oh%20sugar%22&f=false}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Sultry with a Twist|author=Macy Beckett|year=2012|passage=“Oh, '''sugar'''.” His room was empty.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F0HQBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT99&dq=%22oh%20sugar%22&pg=PT99#v=onepage&q=%22oh%20sugar%22&f=false}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|sugar honey ice tea}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|minced oath}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vitsi}}, {{t+|fi|pannahinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|zut}}, {{t+|fr|fichtre}}
* German: {{t+|de|Scheibenkleister|m}}, {{t|de|Scheibenhonig|m}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|siúcra}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|mkrda}}, {{t|pt|ferca}}, {{t|pt|herfa}}, {{t+|pt|merca}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|блин|m|lit=pancake}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|jolines}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===See also===
* [[glyco-]]
* [[-ose]]

===References===
* {{R:AHD}}
* {{R:Collins}}
* {{R:Dictionary.com}}
* {{R:Etymonline}}
* {{R:Longman}}
* {{R:MWO}}
* {{R:Webster 1913}}
<references/>

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=agrsu|Argus|Guras|argus|gaurs|guars|ragus|ragùs}}

{{cln|en|endearing terms|minced oaths|terms of address}}
{{C|en|Sugars}}
[[Category:Southern US English]]

==Basque==

===Etymology===
From {{compound|eu|su|gar}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|eu|LL-Q8752 (eus)-Xabier Cañas-sugar.wav}}

===Noun===
{{eu-noun|in}}

# [[flame]]

==Galician==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alt|gl|chuchar|suchar|zugar}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|gl|VL.|*sucāre}}, from {{inh|gl|la|sugō|sugere}}, from {{der|gl|ine-pro|*sug-}}, {{m|ine-pro|*suk-}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|gl|[suˈɣaɾ]}}

===Verb===
{{gl-verb}}

# to [[suck]]
#* {{quote-book|gl|year=1858|author=O Seor Pedro|title=Romance Gallego...|location=Santiago|publisher=Imprenta de Manuel Mirás|page=2
|passage=''Deixáradesme ir pra terra, pra que as miñocas as tripas e os ósos me esfuracasen e me '''sugasen''' axiña''
|translation=''You'll let me go to the earth, so that promptly the earthworms drill and '''suck''' my guts and bones''}}

====Conjugation====
{{gl-conj}}
{{gl-reinteg-conj}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|gl|sugota}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|gl|samesuga}}

===References===
* {{R:gl:CX|semesuga}}
* {{R:gl:DDLG}}
* {{R:gl:TILG}}
* {{R:gl:Estraviz}}
* {{R:TLPGP|zugar}}

==Ido==

===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|io|de|saugen}} and {{bor|io|la|sūgō|sūgere}}, and to some extent {{bor|io|en|suck}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|io|/suˈɡar/}}

===Verb===
{{io-verb|sug}}

# {{lb|io|transitive}} to [[suck]] {{gloss|candy, etc., something from something}}
#: {{ux|io|'''Sugar''' la suko de oranjo.|'''To suck''' the juice from an orange.}}

====Conjugation====
{{io-conj}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|io|suganta||sucking; {{qualifier|zool.}} suctorial}}
* {{l|io|sugilo||sucker {{gloss|as of an insect}}}}
* {{l|io|mamsugar||to suckle}}

==Latin==

===Pronunciation===
* {{la-IPA|sūgar}}

===Verb===
{{head|la|verb form|head=sūgar}}

# {{inflection of|la|sūgō||1|s|futr|pasv|indc}}

==Portuguese==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|pt|VL.|*sucō|*sucāre}}, from {{inh|pt|la|sugō|sūgere}}, from {{der|pt|ine-pro|*sug-}}, {{m|ine-pro|*suk-}}. Cognate with {{cog|gl|sugar}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{pt-IPA}}
* {{hyphenation|pt|su|gar}}

===Verb===
{{pt-verb}}

# to [[suck]]

====Conjugation====
{{pt-conj}} 

====Derived terms====
{{col|pt
|sugador
|sugação
}}

====Related terms====
{{col|pt
|sucção
}}

==Romanian==

===Etymology===
From {{suffix|ro|suge|t1=to suck|-ar}}. Compare {{cog|dlm|sugol||lamb}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|ro|/suˈɡar/}}

===Adjective===
{{ro-adj}}

# [[suckling]]

====Declension====
{{ro-decl-adj}}

===Noun===
{{ro-noun|m|sugari|f=sugară}}

# unweaned [[baby]], [[newborn]]
# [[suckling]], young mammal that hasn't weaned yet

====Declension====
{{ro-noun-m}}

====Synonyms====
* {{l|ro|sugaci}}

==Venetan==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|vec|la|exsūcō|exsūcāre|t=to juice; to dry}} (compare {{cog|it|asciugare}}, {{cog|fur|suiâ}}).

===Verb===
{{head|vec|verb}}

# {{lb|vec|transitive}} to [[wipe]], [[dry]]

====Conjugation====
{{vec-conj-auto}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|vec|sugaman}}

====See also====
* {{l|vec|suto}}