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sugarful en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucrebor. Middle English sugre English sugar Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful English -ful English sugarful From sugar + -ful.

Meanings

1. Full of sugar.
   • I use these artificially sweetened products only as much as I did their sugarful counterparts in my pre-diabetic days, which wasn’t ever excessive. 1969, Margaret Bennett (pseudonym; Barbara Toohey and June Biermann), The Peripatetic Diabetic, New York, N.Y.: Hawthorn Books, Inc., page 43:
   • While these kinds of environments seem to provide a substitute for environments where kids are welcome, they indoctrinate kids into industrial capitalist society through its basic economic engines, gasoline for cars and sugarful items for instant gratification. 1997, Heather Hood, Teenagers in Suburbia: Roads Often Traveled, Places Frequented and Longed for, page 25:
   • I got a Dr Pepper, which Mom doesn’t let me have too often. Plus three packs of sugarful gum, and barbecue chips for later. 2010, Mary Hershey, Love and Pollywogs from Camp Calamity, Wendy Lamb Books, →ISBN, page 33:

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