brown sugar

English

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Noun

brown sugar (countable and uncountable, plural brown sugars)

1. Sugar which has been only partially refined and still contains molasses.
2. Refined sugar to which molasses has been added.
3. (slang) Heroin.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin

4. (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

• icing sugar
• raw sugar
• white sugar

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")
• Korean: 흑설탕 (ko) (heukseoltang)
• 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