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Meaning of brown-sugary | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of brown sugar.
  2. With brown sugar.

Examples

“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!””
“Perhaps, in that coarse brown-sugary sand, by flashlight, I could have missed Salmon’s ankle or shoulder if he was buried there.”
“[…] what interested them even more was that he showed them how to cook sand-pies and cakes in the sun so that they tasted not of sand at all, but of the most delicious brown-sugary shortbread.”
“The real old-time butterscotch flavor—you’ll know it as soon as you taste it. Rich and brown-sugary. Smooth and crystal clear, as homemade butterscotch sauces seldom can be.”
“We bit into our chocolate chip cookies, brown-sugary and delicious, and I wished, fervently, that somehow, today, I would know what to do with myself when it came to boys.”
“Excellent sides include brown-sugary sweet-potato casserole and bitter greens.”
“Daisy untied the bow and pulled open the bag to sniff the creamy brown-sugary goodies.”
“i’m usually a chocolate-in-my-cookies kind of gal, but for brown-sugary, caramel-packed bars, I’ll make an exception.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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