brown sugar

English

Noun

brown sugar (countable and uncountable, plural brown sugars)

Sugar which has been only partially refined and still contains molasses.
Refined sugar to which molasses has been added.
(slang) Heroin.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
(slang) An attractive black woman.
- 1996, “Camay”, in Ironman, performed by Ghostface Killah:
  What's happening brown sugar? Say, you look so good today / Ankle bracelet wrapped around your leg

Derived terms

brown-sugared
brown-sugary
dark brown sugar
light brown sugar
natural brown sugar

Related terms

Translations

partially refined sugar

Catalan: sucre roig m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 紅糖／红糖 (zh) (hóngtáng) ("red sugar")
Danish: farin (da)
Finnish: ruskea sokeri, ruokosokeri (fi)
French: cassonade (fr) f, sucre roux (fr) m
Galician: azucre moreno (gl) m
German: brauner Zucker m
Hungarian: barna cukor, barnacukor
Italian: zucchero grezzo m
Japanese: 黒砂糖 (ja) (くろざとう, kurozatō) ("black sugar")
Maltese: zokkor ismar
Norman: jaûne chucre m
Okinawan: 砂糖 (さーたー, sātā), 黒砂糖 (くるじゃーたー, kurujātā, くるざーたー, kuruzātā))
Polish: brązowy cukier m
Portuguese: açúcar mascavo (pt) m
Russian: кори́чневый са́хар (koríčnevyj sáxar)
Serbo-Croatian: smeđi šećer m
Spanish: azúcar moreno (es) m, azúcar morena (es) m
Swedish: farinsocker n, farin (sv) c
Tagalog: pulang asukal
Thai: น้ำตาลทรายแดง
Turkish: kahverengi şeker (tr), esmer şeker (tr)
Welsh: siwgr coch m
Yonaguni: 黒砂糖 (ふるさった, furusatta)

refined sugar with molasses

Danish: farin (da)
Finnish: fariinisokeri (fi)
Norman: jaune chucre m
Swedish: farinsocker n, farin (sv) c
Tagalog: pulang asukal

Further reading

brown sugar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

brown argus

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