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Sugared

Definition: Sugared

Sugared

Adjective

1. With sweetening added.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sugared" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)


Synonyms: Sugared

Synonyms: sweet (adj), sweetened (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sugared

Specialty definitions using "sugared": Bishop, Cardinal, PopeSANDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, short pastry, Sugared Words, SweetLambda. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Sugared

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Use in Literature: Sugared

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Discarded crusts and lumps of sugared bread, turned brown by the tea which had been poured over them, lay scattered on the table.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

They filled their plates, poured bacon gravy over the biscuits, and sugared their coffee.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Sugared

"Sugared" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 77.50% of the time. "Sugared" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)77.5%3162,296
Lexical Verb (past tense)15%6143,867
Lexical Verb (past participle)5%2245,945
Noun (proper)2.5%1339,140
                    Total100.00%40N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Sugared

Expressions using "sugared": sugared almond sugared almonds sugared bun sugared water wedding sugared almonds. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sugared

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fruit sugared

9

sugared pecans

7

sugared almond

7

flower sugared

5

almond recipe sugared

4

sugared walnut

4

grape sugared

4

recipe sugared walnut

3

nut sugared

2

pecans recipe sugared

2

pansy sugared

2

cake fruit sugared wedding

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sugared

Language Translations for "sugared"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i sheqerosur (candied, glace, honeyed, honied, saccharine, treacly). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مسكر (candied, glace, heady, inebriant, intoxicant, spirit, sweetened). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(Sugaring). (various references)

   

Danish

  

kandiserede mandler (dragee, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), dragévarer (dragee, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), dragé (dragee, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

suikerboon (dragee, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), suikeramandel (dragee, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), gedrageerd artikel (dragee, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), dragees (dragee, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), dragee (dragee, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugar-coated tablet, sugared almond, sugared almonds). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sokeroitu manteli (dragee, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), jäädytetty sokeroitu keltuainen (frozen sugared yolks). (various references)

   

French

  

produit dragéifié (sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), jaune d'oeuf sucré congelé (frozen sugared yolks), dragée (sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds). (various references)

   

German

  

gezuckerte, gezuckert (candied). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κρόκοι αυγών με ζάχαρη κατεψυγμένοι (frozen sugared yolks), κουραμπιέσ (sugared bun), μπομπονιέρα (wedding sugared almonds). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ממותק (sweetened), מסוכר (candied, glace). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

bergula (candied, contain sugar). (various references)

   

Italian

  

zuccherato (sweetened). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

飴煮 (food boiled in sugared broth), "納豆 (sugared red beans), 糖水 (sugared water). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さとうみず (sugared water), あまなっとう (sugared red beans), あめに (food boiled in sugared broth). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

아첨을 하". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ugaredsay

   

Portuguese

  

drageias (dragee, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), drageia (dragee, hard panned goods, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds), amêndoa francesa (dragee, panned good, panned sweet, pralines, sugar almonds, sugar coated good, sugared almond, sugared almonds). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

zaharisit (candied, decrepit), dulce (amorously, benign, bland, candied, charming, dear, dessert, dulcet, flattering, fresh, genial, gentle, gently, honeyed, lovable, luscious, melliferous, mellow, melodious, slack, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, sweetly, sweets, tender, winning). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обсахаренный. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sensiblero (maudlin, mushy, sappy, sentimental, soppy, sugary, twee), romántico (novelettish, romantic, romanticist, sentimental, sugary), azucarado (candied, sugar coated, sugary, sweet), almibarado (sugary, syrupy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ballandırılmış, şekerli (saccharine, sugary, sweetened, with sugar). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

зацукрований (candied), прикрашений (adorned, decorated, dressed). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

có rắc đường, có cho đường; bọc đường. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sugared

Derivations

Words ending with "sugared": desugared. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sugared" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: puggaree, ruggered, sangaree, Sgulaird, sugara, sugaree, sugarer, sugarey, Sungard. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sugared"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sugared" (pronounced shuh"gerd)
3-g er dangered, beleaguered, fingered, haggard, laggard, lingered, staggered, triggered.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sugared

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: desugar.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-r-s-u"

-1 letter: argued, argues, augers, grades, gradus, guards, sauger, surged.

-2 letters: agers, agues, argue, argus, auger, aures, dares, dears, degas, drags, dregs, drugs, druse, duras, dures, egads, gauds, gaurs, gears, grade, grads, grues, guard, guars, gudes, raged, rages, rased, reads, rugae, sager, sarge, sugar, surge, urase, ureas, urged, urges, ursae, usage.

-3 letters: aged, ager, ages.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: desugars, graduses, guarders, subgrade, upgrades.

 

+2 letters: dangerous, daughters, degausser, desugared, dungarees, gauderies, graduates, grandeurs, guardsmen, noseguard, redargues, safeguard, subgrades, underages.

 

+3 letters: degaussers, demurrages, desugaring, discourage, drugmakers, fireguards, gardenfuls, gratitudes, grubstaked, guardhouse, lifeguards, noseguards, persuading, safeguards, sandgrouse, scrummaged, spurgalled, subrogated, surcharged, surrogated, undergrads, vulgarised.

 

+4 letters: admeasuring, budgerigars, dangerously, deregulates, discouraged, discourager, discourages, disgraceful, dramaturges, draughtiest, draughtsmen, figureheads, gastrulated, gourmandise, gradualness, granduncles, guardedness, guardhouses, krugerrands, quadrangles, readjusting, safeguarded, sandgrouses, slaughtered, squandering, sugarcoated, superadding, underglazes, ungarnished.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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