Brown-sugary

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of brown sugar.

    "A gentleman residing in Devonshire, and, therefore, in a warm and growing climate, has failed in his Pine crop, inasmuch as the fruit, when cut and brought to table, though fine in size, tastes, as we should say of a turnip in my country, mosey, and has one insipid, brown-sugary flavour pervading it, and no other."

  2. 2
    With brown sugar.

    "[…] what interested them even more was that he showed them how to cook sand-pies and cakes in the sun so that they tasted not of sand at all, but of the most delicious brown-sugary shortbread."

Example

More examples

"A gentleman residing in Devonshire, and, therefore, in a warm and growing climate, has failed in his Pine crop, inasmuch as the fruit, when cut and brought to table, though fine in size, tastes, as we should say of a turnip in my country, mosey, and has one insipid, brown-sugary flavour pervading it, and no other."

Etymology

From brown sugar + -y.

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