brown-sugary
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.12 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of brown sugar.
adj
With brown sugar.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The color of the Tamworth, usually described as red, and by the Shrewsbury judges called sandy, is a sort of brown-sugary yellow or yellowish brown, with more or less of a reddish tinge."
- "The strong, brown-sugary smell of the Phloxes again is very disagreeable to some people; […]"
- "Where the chalk has been burnt and it crumbles it assumes the look of brown sugar, and wherever this brown-sugary appearance is present about the rock windows and doors of one of these castles in the air, we know the manner of its reduction."
- "The D. P. W. men wrestled with the brown-sugary stuff that impeded traffic on the paved streets, and they are doomed to wrestle again today, according to the best advices from the weather bureau."
- "There seemed to be a considerable amount of sugar and thick syrup. / “Guess you got your money’s worth,” Bronson remarked. “Whew, but doesn’t it smell brown-sugary!”"
Etymology
From brown sugar + -y.