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brown sugary

brown sugary is the alternative form of brown-sugary.

Meaning of 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...
  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
    Synonyms:
    brown-sugared

Forms of brown sugary

comparativemore brown sugary
superlativemost brown sugary

Questions about brown sugary

What is brown sugary the alternative form of?
Brown sugary is the alternative form of brown-sugary.

Words near brown sugary in the dictionary

  1. brown sticker
  2. brown studies
  3. brown study
  4. brown sugar
  5. brown sugars
  6. brown sugary
  7. Brown Swiss
  8. Brown syndrome
  9. brown tang
  10. brown tangs
  11. brown teal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brown sugary (page history and authors); brown-sugary (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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