sugarer

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noun

Someone who sugars foods, who adds sugar to food products.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

nounsugarer (plural sugarers)

plural sugarers

  1. Someone who sugars foods, who adds sugar to food products.
  2. A manufacturer of maple syrup.

    March 2004, Naples News - Teen has even higher goals for acclaimed maple syrup Fisk, a fifth-generation sugarer and high school sophomore, is one of more than 900 syrup producers in the state, many of whom tap only a handful of trees and produce just enough for their families.

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    If you are such a frustrated maple sugarer, I have a solution to offer whereby you can sugar this spring with no physical effort...

    1990, Noel Perrin, First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer, →ISBN, page 23

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱorkeh₂
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranian*ćárkaraH
  3. Proto-Indo-Aryan*śárkaraH
  4. Sanskritशर्क॑रा (śárkarā)
  5. Middle Persian𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)
  6. Arabicسُكَّر (sukkar)
  7. Old Italianzucchero
  8. Old Frenchçucre
  9. Middle Englishsugre
  10. Englishsugar
  11. Englishsugarer

From sugar + -er.

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APA

sugarer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sugarer

MLA

“sugarer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sugarer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sugarer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sugarer.

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