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brown-sugared en · ADJ

Etymology

From brown sugar + -ed.

Meanings

  1. With brown sugar.
    • But the star attraction is the big, oily, fat delivery full of liquorice and brown-sugared coffee. 2012, Jim Murray, Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2013, Northamptonshire: Dram Good Books Ltd, published 2013, →ISBN, page 292:
    • The sweet potatoes, dotted with raisins and brown-sugared, are required. 1992 April 7, Phil Patton, “Some Pig”, in Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton, New York, N.Y.: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, published 2016, →ISBN, page 74:
    • He cooked up some brats he had been marinating in beer and brown-sugared apples for over 10 hours, served with warmed potato salad. 2012, Adam Goldstein, Tailgate to Heaven: A British NFL Fan Tackles America, Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, →ISBN, page 183:
    • At our house, last night’s squash was buttered and brown-sugared and as gussied up as any orange-hued puree could be. 2006, Lorilee Craker, The Wide-Eyed Wonder Years: A Mommy Guide to the Preschool Daze, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Revell, →ISBN, page 47:
    • The swift cyclist and the plunging horse had between them set the dust to flying, and my tongue and lips, which had been anticipating the brown-sugared bread at the end of the journey were coated now with powdery grit. 1939 September, Mass, “The Publisher’s Corner”, in Oral Hygiene, volume 29, number 9, page 1032:

Synonyms

brown-sugary