brown sugary

A form of brown-sugary — Resembling or characteristic of brown sugar.

Meanings

adjectivebrown sugary (comparative more brown sugary, superlative most brown sugary)

comparative more brown sugary · superlative most brown sugary

  1. alternativeAlternative form of brown-sugary.

    blond, beautiful (of texture), and brown sugary

    2011, Lisa Yockelson, Baking Style: Art, Craft, Recipes, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 407
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    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.

    1894 June, “Castles in the Air”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XXII, number 132, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], page 640

    Though the rich brown sugary smell of the cookies wafted through the house, it did nothing to fill the emptiness of the rooms in which they lived, emptiness that was destroying Bonnie and that Kirk, totally preoccupied with the problems at SuperWrite, didn’t seem to notice.

    1985, Ruth Harris, Husbands and Lovers, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 335

    Peach cakes are popular in Maryland in the summertime, and I like to make this buttery, brown sugary version at least several times each season.

    2005, Nancy Baggett, The All-American Dessert Book, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 126

    Buttery and brown sugary, these old-fashioned bars will be a sure hit.

    2007, Pillsbury editors, Holiday Baking, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 169

    The result is a sweet and spicy gingerbread pudding soaked with a sticky, buttery, brown sugary sauce.

    2009, Jennifer Lindner McGlinn, Gingerbread: Timeless Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Desserts, Ice Cream, and Candy, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 72
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