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brown-sugared

brown-sugared adjective: with brown sugar.

Adjective

brown-sugared

  1. With brown sugar.
    • The swift cyclist and the plunging horse had between them set the dust to flying, and my tongue and lips, which had been anticipating the brown-sugared bread at the end of the journey were coated now with powdery grit.1939 September, Mass, “The Publisher’s Corner”, in Oral Hygiene, volume 29, number 9, page 1032
    • The sweet potatoes, dotted with raisins and brown-sugared, are required.1992 April 7, Phil Patton, “Some Pig”, in Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton, New York, N.Y.: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, published 2016, →ISBN...
    Synonyms:
    brown-sugary

Examples of brown-sugared in a sentence

  • At our house, last night’s squash was buttered and brown-sugared and as gussied up as any orange-hued puree could be.2006, Lorilee Craker, The Wide-Eyed Wonder Years: A Mommy Guide to the Preschool Daze, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Revell, →ISBN, page 47:
  • But the star attraction is the big, oily, fat delivery full of liquorice and brown-sugared coffee.2012, Jim Murray, Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2013, Northamptonshire: Dram Good Books Ltd, published 2013, →ISBN, page 292:
  • He cooked up some brats he had been marinating in beer and brown-sugared apples for over 10 hours, served with warmed potato salad.2012, Adam Goldstein, Tailgate to Heaven: A British NFL Fan Tackles America, Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, →ISBN, page 183:

Synonyms of brown-sugared

Origin of brown-sugared

From brown sugar + -ed.

Questions about brown-sugared

What does brown-sugared mean?
Brown-sugared means with brown sugar.
How do you use brown-sugared in a sentence?
At our house, last night’s squash was buttered and brown-sugared and as gussied up as any orange-hued puree could be.
What part of speech is brown-sugared?
Brown-sugared is an adjective.

Words near brown-sugared in the dictionary

  1. brown-outs
  2. brown-point shield skin longirostris
  3. brown-rumped minivet
  4. brown-rumped minivets
  5. brown-spotted
  6. brown-sugared
  7. brown-sugary
  8. Brown-Séquard syndrome
  9. Brown-Séquard's hemiplegia
  10. Brown-Séquard's paralysis
  11. brown-tail moth

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