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sugar and spice and everything nice

sugar and spice and everything nice phrase: describing a person who is kind, friendly, pleasant, and generally good-natured.

Phrase

sugar and spice and everything nice

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Describing a person who is kind, friendly, pleasant, and generally good-natured.

Origin of sugar and spice and everything nice

Probably from the nursery rhyme What Are Little Boys Made Of?.

Words formed from sugar and spice and everything nice

Questions about sugar and spice and everything nice

What does sugar and spice and everything nice mean?
Sugar and spice and everything nice means describing a person who is kind, friendly, pleasant, and generally good-natured.
What part of speech is sugar and spice and everything nice?
Sugar and spice and everything nice is a phrase.

Words near sugar and spice and everything nice in the dictionary

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

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