sugary
adjEtymology
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.
- derived from çucrebor
- derived from zuccherobor
Definitions
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.
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.
Fond of sweets.
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A place where maple-juice is manufactured.
A place where sugar is manufactured.
The neighborhood
- neighborbrown-sugary
Derived
nonsugary, oversugary, sugarily, sugariness, unsugary, maple sugary
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.
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.
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