sugar
A sweet white or brown substance from some plants, used to make food and drinks taste sweet.
A sweet, soluble, crystalline carbohydrate obtained from plants such as sugar cane and sugar beet, used to sweeten food and drink.
The form of sugar found in the blood that gives energy to the body.
Glucose or similar simple carbohydrates present in the blood or food, especially in medical or nutritional contexts.
A sweet name you call someone you like or love.
A term of endearment used to address someone affectionately, often a romantic partner or child.
To put sugar into food or drink.
To put sugar into food or drink to make it sweet.
A soft way to show you are annoyed or surprised without using bad words.
Used as a mild exclamation to express annoyance, surprise, or frustration, avoiding stronger swear words.
- Base: sugar
- Plural: sugar, sugars
- Base: sugar
- 3rd Person Singular: sugars
- Present Participle: sugaring
- Past: sugared
like taking candy from a baby / like taking sweets from a baby / like taking sugar from a baby
1Something very easy to do (unfair)
Very easy to do, often unfairly so.
- Winning the game was like taking candy from a baby.
- Convincing him was like taking sugar from a baby.
pour sugar on (something) / pour on the sugar
1Add too much sweetness or praise
To put too much sweetness in food or drink, or say too many nice things about something.
- He poured sugar on his cereal until it was too sweet.
- She poured on the sugar when talking to her boss.
sugar and spice (and everything nice)
1Sweet and nice qualities (girls)
Used to describe what girls are 'made of' in an old rhyme, meaning they are sweet and nice.
- They say little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice.
- Her personality is all sugar and spice.
sugarcoat (something)
1Make unpleasant thing seem nicer
To make something bad sound nicer than it really is.
- Don’t sugarcoat the news—tell me the truth.
- The report was clearly sugarcoated for the public.
sugar daddy
1older rich man supporting younger lover
An older man who gives money or expensive things to a much younger person in return for romantic or sexual company.
- She admitted that the man paying her rent was basically her sugar daddy.
- People joked that he must be a sugar daddy because he always bought her luxury bags.
- The article explored websites where students look for sugar daddies to help with their fees.
sugar daddy
2Older man giving money for romance
An older man who gives money or gifts to a younger person for a romantic or sexual relationship.
- She is dating a wealthy sugar daddy.
- Rumors spread that he was her sugar daddy.