sugar and spice
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "“Hazel is a little firecracker,” she said. “She is sugar and spice. She’s incredibly, incredibly sweet and loving and sticks to you like glue, but is feisty with strangers and apparently found some way to survive out there for quite a few days, so she’s hardier than I would have thought she was. I’m very impressed.”"
- "Place one layer of apples in the pan making as nice and even layer as possible. You would probably use about 1 apple for each layer depending on how big they are. Once you’ve put down a layer, sprinkle on the sugar and spice mixture — just enough to coat the apples; not too thick."
- "We even took our coats off during lunch — that’s how warm it was — the better to dig into our lobster roll and the restaurant’s signature fries. These chubby fries are dusted with sugar and spice and are totally irresistible. If you get only one order, you’ll be fighting for every last wedge. Or feeding each other fries, since this is a romance story."
Etymology
Perhaps from sugar and spice and everything nice in the nursery rhyme What Are Little Boys Made Of?.