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sugar
English
Alternative forms
- shugar (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sugre, sucre, from Middle French sucre, from Old French çucre (circa 13th century), from Medieval Latin zuccarum, from Old Italian zúccharo, from Arabic ??????? (sukkar), from Persian ???? (šakar), from Middle Persian [script needed] (škl), ????????????? (šqr /šakar/), from Sanskrit ?????? (?árkar?, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel”), from Proto-Indo-European *?orkeh? (“gravel, boulder”), akin to Ancient Greek ????? (krók?, “pebble”). Doublet of jaggery.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?????(?)/
- (General American) enPR: sho?og??r, IPA(key): /?????/
- Rhymes: -???(r)
Noun
sugar (countable and uncountable, plural sugars)
- (uncountable) Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
- (countable) A specific variety of sugar.
- (countable, chemistry) Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
- Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:carbohydrate
- (countable) A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
- (countable) A term of endearment.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sweetheart
- (countable, slang) A kiss.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buss
- (chiefly southern US, slang, uncountable) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
- (uncountable, informal) Diabetes.
- (dated) 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.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
- (US, slang, uncountable, dated) Money.
- (programming) Syntactic sugar.
Hyponyms
Meronyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See sugar/translations § Noun.
Verb
sugar (third-person singular simple present sugars, present participle sugaring, simple past and past participle sugared)
- (transitive) To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
- (transitive) To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
- (US, Canada, 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.
- (entomology) To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
- (programming, transitive) To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
- 2002, "Jonathan Bromley", Fixed point arithmetic (on newsgroup comp.arch.fpga)
- You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […]
- 2006, "Neil Madden", Re: Closures (on newsgroup comp.lang.tcl)
- 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.
- 2002, "Jonathan Bromley", Fixed point arithmetic (on newsgroup comp.arch.fpga)
- (transitive) To compliment (a person).
Synonyms
- (add sugar to): sweeten
- (make less unpleasant): sweeten, sugar-coat
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
sugar
- (informal, euphemistic) Used in place of shit!
Derived terms
- sugar honey ice tea
Translations
See also
- glyco-
- -ose
Anagrams
- Argus, Guras, argus, gaurs, guars, ragus, ragùs
Basque
Etymology
From su +? gar.
Noun
sugar inan
- flame
Galician
Alternative forms
- chuchar, suchar, zugar
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *suc?re, from Latin sugere, present active infinitive of sug?, from Proto-Indo-European *sug-, *suk-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [su??a?]
Verb
sugar (first-person singular present sugo, first-person singular preterite suguei, past participle sugado)
- to suck
- 1858, O Seor Pedro, Romance Gallego.... Santiago: Imprenta de Manuel Mirás, page 2:
- Deixáradesme ir pra terra, pra que as miñocas as tripas e os ósos me esfuracasen e me sugasen axiña
- You'll let me go to the earth, so that promptly the earthworms drill and suck my guts and bones
- Deixáradesme ir pra terra, pra que as miñocas as tripas e os ósos me esfuracasen e me sugasen axiña
- 1858, O Seor Pedro, Romance Gallego.... Santiago: Imprenta de Manuel Mirás, page 2:
Conjugation
- Note: sug- are changed to sugu- before front vowels (e).
Derived terms
- sugota
Related terms
- samesuga
References
- “semesuga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “sugar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “sugar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “zugar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from German saugen and Latin s?gere, present active infinitive of s?g?, and to some extent English suck.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su??ar/
Verb
sugar (present tense sugas, past tense sugis, future tense sugos, imperative sugez, conditional sugus)
- (transitive) to suck (candy, etc., something from something)
Conjugation
Derived terms
- suganta (“sucking; (zool.) suctorial”)
- sugilo (“sucker (as of an insect)”)
- mamsugar (“to suckle”)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?su?.?ar/, [?s?u??är]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?su.?ar/, [?su???r]
Verb
s?gar
- first-person singular future passive indicative of s?g?
Portuguese
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *suc?re, from Latin sugere, present active infinitive of sug?, from Proto-Indo-European *sug-, *suk-.
Verb
sugar (first-person singular present indicative sugo, past participle sugado)
- to suck
Conjugation
Romanian
Etymology
From suge (“to suck”) +? -ar. Compare Dalmatian sugol (“lamb”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su??ar/
Adjective
sugar m or n (feminine singular sugar?, masculine plural sugari, feminine and neuter plural sugare)
- suckling-
Declension
Noun
sugar m (plural sugari, feminine equivalent sugar?)
- unweaned baby, newborn
- suckling, young mammal that hasn't weaned yet
Declension
Synonyms
- sugaci
Venetian
Etymology
From Latin exs?c?re, present active infinitive of exs?c? (“I juice; I dry”) (compare Italian asciugare, Friulian suiâ).
Verb
sugar
- (transitive) to wipe, dry
Conjugation
- Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Related terms
- sugaman
See also
- suto
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glucagon
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??lu?k???n/, /??lu?k???n/
- (US) IPA(key): /??luk????n/
Noun
glucagon (plural glucagons)
- (biochemistry) A peptide hormone, produced by the pancreas, that opposes the action of insulin by stimulating the production of sugar
Derived terms
- enteroglucagon
- glucagonlike
- glucagonotropic
- preproglucagon
- proglucagon
Translations
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