brown-sugary

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling or characteristic of brown sugar.

   • The color of the Tamworth, usually described as red, and by the Shrewsbury judges called sandy, is a sort of brown-sugary yellow or yellowish brown, with more or less of a reddish tinge.
   • The strong, brown-sugary smell of the Phloxes again is very disagreeable to some people; […]
2. 2

   With brown sugar.

   • […] what interested them even more was that he showed them how to cook sand-pies and cakes in the sun so that they tasted not of sand at all, but of the most delicious brown-sugary shortbread.
   • The real old-time butterscotch flavor—you’ll know it as soon as you taste it. Rich and brown-sugary. Smooth and crystal clear, as homemade butterscotch sauces seldom can be.
   • We bit into our chocolate chip cookies, brown-sugary and delicious, and I wished, fervently, that somehow, today, I would know what to do with myself when it came to boys.

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