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sugar and spice

sugar and spice adjective: pleasant, delightful.

Adjective

sugar and spice (not comparable)

  1. Pleasant, delightful.
    • “Hazel is a little firecracker,” she said. “She is sugar and spice. She’s incredibly, incredibly sweet and loving and sticks to you like glue, but is feisty with strangers and apparently found some way to survive out there for quite a few days, so she’s hardier than I would have thought she was....2024 March 22, Shannon Larson, “‘This is the happiest day of my life’: Mass. native reunited with missing dog after story about search goes viral”, in The Boston Globe, retrieved 06 Jun 2026

Noun

sugar and spice (uncountable)

  1. A mixture of flavors.
    • Place one layer of apples in the pan making as nice and even layer as possible. You would probably use about 1 apple for each layer depending on how big they are. Once you’ve put down a layer, sprinkle on the sugar and spice mixture — just enough to coat the apples; not too thick.2014 November 11, Gail Ciampa, “Sweet holiday treats from Newport chef feature layers of flavor”, in The Providence Journal, retrieved 06 Jun 2026
    • We even took our coats off during lunch — that’s how warm it was — the better to dig into our lobster roll and the restaurant’s signature fries. These chubby fries are dusted with sugar and spice and are totally irresistible. If you get only one order, you’ll be fighting for every last wedge. Or...2021 January 20, Diane Bair, Pamela Wright, “Food and love are a great match in Portland, Maine. But does it make sense to go in winter?”, in The Boston Globe
  2. (idiomatic) Two things that are fundamentally different from each other.

sugar and spice meaning in Bengali

sugar and spice in Bengali

মনোরম, আনন্দদায়ক, স্বাদের মিশ্রণ

Origin of sugar and spice

Perhaps from sugar and spice and everything nice in the nursery rhyme What Are Little Boys Made Of?.

Questions about sugar and spice

What does sugar and spice mean?
Sugar and spice means pleasant, delightful.
What is sugar and spice in Bengali?
Sugar and spice in Bengali is মনোরম, আনন্দদায়ক, স্বাদের মিশ্রণ. See Sugar and spice meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is sugar and spice?
Sugar and spice can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near sugar and spice in the dictionary

  1. sugar
  2. sugar acid
  3. sugar acids
  4. sugar alcohol
  5. sugar alcohols
  6. sugar and spice
  7. sugar and spice and everything nice
  8. sugar ant
  9. sugar ants
  10. sugar apple
  11. sugar apples

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sugar and spice (page history and authors); sugar and spice (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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