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icing sugar

icing sugar noun: powdered sugar.

Noun

icing sugar (countable and uncountable, plural icing sugars)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) Powdered sugar.
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Synonyms of icing sugar

Forms of icing sugar

pluralicing sugars

Questions about icing sugar

What does icing sugar mean?
Icing sugar means powdered sugar.
What part of speech is icing sugar?
Icing sugar is a noun.
What is the plural of icing sugar?
The plural of icing sugar is icing sugars.

Words near icing sugar in the dictionary

  1. icing
  2. icing down
  3. icing on the cake
  4. icing out
  5. icing over
  6. icing sugar
  7. icing sugars
  8. icing up
  9. icinged
  10. icinglike
  11. icings

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