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Pronunciation
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
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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)
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refined sugar with molasses
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