sugary

adj
/ˈʃʊɡəɹi/US/ˈʃʉɡəɾe/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucrebor. Middle English sugre English sugar Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English sugary From sugar + -y.

  1. derived from çucrebor
  2. derived from zuccherobor

Definitions

  1. Of food, drink, etc., containing or covered with a large amount of sugar.

    • By always having water on hand, you’ll be more likely to skip soda or other sugary beverages, which saves you a ton of calories.
  2. Exaggeratedly sweet and pleasant, often to the point of aversion.

    • Whenever young lovers tied the knot, some wedding guest would inevitably beseech the reception band to play the sugary strains of this song.
  3. Fond of sweets.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. A place where maple-juice is manufactured.

    2. A place where sugar is manufactured.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sugary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01sugary02exaggeratedly03exaggerated04exaggerate05overblown06overblow07blossoms08blossom09rich

A definitional loop anchored at sugary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at sugary

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA