brown-sugary

Adjective

brown-sugary (comparative more brown-sugary, superlative most brown-sugary)

1. Resembling or characteristic of brown sugar.
   • A gentleman residing in Devonshire, and, therefore, in a warm and growing climate, has failed in his Pine crop, inasmuch as the fruit, when cut and brought to table, though fine in size, tastes, as we should say of a turnip in my country, mosey, and has one insipid, brown-sugary flavour pervading...1854 July 6, A Worcestershire Man [pseudonym], “Pines (Queen’s) Deficient in Flavour”, in George W[illiam] Johnson, editor, The Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman’s Companion, volume XII...
   • 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.1885, The National Live-Stock Journal, volume 16, page 33, column 3
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.1925, The New Merry-Go-Round, volume 3, page 133
   • 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.1929 September 20, “Hot Biscuits… for Dessert? Just try them with Amaizo Butterscotch Syrup”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 146, number 23,690, Sacramento, Calif., page twenty, column 1

   Synonyms:

   brown-sugared