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Definition: Sugared |
SugaredAdjective1. 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: SugaredSynonyms: sweet (adj), sweetened (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sugared |
| Specialty definitions using "sugared": Bishop, Cardinal, Pope ♦ SANDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, short pastry, Sugared Words, SweetLambda. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 77.5% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 15% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 | 糖 (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 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) 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) обсахаренный. (various references) 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) ballandırılmış, şekerli (saccharine, sugary, sweetened, with sugar). (various references) зацукрований (candied), прикрашений (adorned, decorated, dressed). (various references) có rắc đường, có cho đường; bọc đường. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "sugared": desugared. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sugared" (pronounced shuh"gerd) |
| 3 | -g er d | angered, beleaguered, fingered, haggard, laggard, lingered, staggered, triggered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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