sugared, ppl. a.
(ˈʃʊgəd)
Forms: 4–5 sucred; 4–7 sugred (5 -id, -yd, -et, sugird, -urd, sugurt, sugeryd, 6 -ed, Sc. sug(g)urit, sugorit, 7 suger'd, sugg'red, sugr'd, sug'red), 6– sugared (7–8 sugar'd); Sc. 7 succred, 8–9 suckered.
[f. sugar n. or v. + -ed. Cf. med.L. zucarata, sugurata (aqua), F. sucré.]
1. Containing or impregnated with sugar; sweetened with sugar.
| c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 53 Ȝet sugurt soppes I nyl forȝete. 1567 J. Maplet Gr. Forest Ep. Ded., Ambrosia, a sugred and confect kinde of Wine. 1576 Gosson Spec. Hum. in Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 77 The tender floure..Whose sugred sap sweet smelling sauours yeeldes. 1577 Harrison England iii. i. in Holinshed, Marchepaine, sugred bread [ed. 1587 sugerbread], gingerbreade. 1626 Bacon Sylva §726 Wine Sugred inebriateth lesse, than Wine Pure. 1633 P. Fletcher Pisc. Eclogues vii. xxxvii, No sugred made confection. 1685 Hedges Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 209 Sugared Biskett. 1763 Mills Pract. Husb. IV. 368 Phials half filled with sugared water. 1886 D. C. Murray First Pers. Sing. ii, He asked for a glass of sugared water and a match. 1889 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Wom. xxii. (ed. 4) 190 By the sugared urine irritating the skin. |
b. sugared pumpkin: = sugar-pumpkin (sugar n. 5 c).
| [1600 Surflet Countrie Farme 252 To make cucumbers or pompions sugred, you must steepe the seed in water that is well sweetned with sugar or honie,..and so sowe them.] 1884 De Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Pl. 254 The sugared pumpkin, called Brazilian. |
c. Resembling (that of) sugar; sugary. rare.
| 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Pears, A very muskish sugared Taste. |
d. Sugar-coated; candied, ‘crystallized’.
| 1855 Dickens Househ. Words XII. 133/2 Bonbons made of sugared nuts and almonds. 1874 Black Pr. Thule xiv. 228 Her pockets stuffed with packages of sugared fruits. 1878 C. Gibbon For the King iii, Pills and words come to the same effect in the end, whether sugared or no. 1892 Garrett Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 15/1 Sugared Almonds. |
e. Smeared with a mixture of sugar, beer, etc. for the purpose of catching moths.
| 1887 Cassell's Dict. s.v. Sugaring, The collector visits the sugared trees after dark with a bull's-eye lantern. |
2. fig. Full of sweetness; honeyed, luscious, delicious. a. With lit. language retained.
| 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 14287 Flaterye, The wych, with hys sugryd galle, Euery vertu doth appalle. 1523 Skelton Garl. Laurel 73 Sith he hath tastid of the sugred pocioun Of Elyconis well. 1576 Gascoigne Kenelworth Wks. 1910 II. 108 The Sugred baite oft hides the harmefull hookes. 1629 Z. Boyd Last Battel 950 (Jam.) All fleshlie pleasures are both vain and vile... Beware of such succred poison. 1663 S. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xv. (1687) 132 These sugared drops do love most to stay in the solitary places. |
b. Of actions, states, etc.: freq., having an attractive outward appearance, alluring.
| c 1374 Chaucer Troylus ii. 384 So lat youre daunger sucred [v.r. sugred] ben a lyte. 1569 in Burnet Hist. Ref., Rec. (1681) II. ii. iii. xii. 369 Her cunning and sugred entertainment of all Men that come to her. a 1586 Sidney Apol. Poetry (Arb.) 28 His sugred inuention of that picture of loue. c 1590 Greene Fr. Bacon vii. 68 Whose face, shining with many a sugar'd smile. 1607 Shakes. Timon iv. iii. 259 Thou would'st haue..followed The Sugred game before thee. 1633 G. Herbert Temple, Glance i, I felt a sugred strange delight. 1651 Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year ii. xix. 248 If we retain..any one beloved lust, any painted devil, any sugar'd temptation. 1890 Spectator 18 Oct., Davies was afterwards more successful in his offers of sugared law. |
† c. Of sound, melody, harmony: Dulcet, mellifluous. Obs.
| c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 11 To practyse withe sugrid melody. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xlvi. 13 A nychtingall, with suggurit notis new. 1580 Gifford Posie Gillofl. Wks. (Grosart) 93 Her sugred descant. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xi. ccxvii, What Ear could now Disrelish such a sugar'd Noise as this! |
† d. Of the tongue, mouth, lips (occas. of persons), with reference to eloquence or tone. Obs.
| c 1440 Lydg. Amor vincit omnia v. (MS. Ashm. 59) Þe greke Omerus w{supt} his sugred mouþe. 1508 Dunbar Gold. Targe 263 Your sugurit lippis and tongis aureate. 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 63 O Pantillas with thy sweit suggurit toung. 1573 L. Lloyd Pilgr. Princes (1586) 24 b, Demosthenes that sugred Orator. 1635 Swan Spec. Mundi vii. §3 (1643) 348 The harmlesse Choristers..do then begin to tune again their sugred throats. |
e. Of words, speech, eloquence. (The commonest use.)
| 1387–8 T. Usk Test. Love i. iv. (Skeat) l. 34 She..gan deliciously me comforte with sugred wordes. c 1440 Lydg. St. Albon (1534) A ij, Sugred deties of Tullius Cicero. c 1450 ― Secrees 220 Thorugh his sugryd Enspyred Elloquence. 1539 Taverner Gard. Wysed. i. 30 His wordes were more sugred than salted, more dilectable then profytable. 1591 Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. iii. 18 Faire perswasions, mixt with sugred words. 1633 G. Herbert Temple, Rose i, This world of sugred lies. 1664 H. More Antid. Idolatry x. 140 The fair words and sugar'd speeches of that cunning Woman. 1789 Wolcot (P. Pindar) Expost. Ode x. Wks. 1812 II. 236 Like Children, charm'd with Praise's sugar'd song. 1863 Kinglake Crimea (1877) II. 165 The cheap sugared words are quickly forgotten. 1891 Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xxxv, She understood that sugared letter which had summoned her from Antium! |
† f. Of kisses. Obs.
| a 1586 Sidney Astr. & Stella Sonn. lxxiii, A sugared kiss In sport I suckt. 1599 B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iv. iii, So sugred, so melting, so soft, so delicious. 1658 E. Phillips Myst. Love Gen. Lud. (1685) 17 Kisses. Tempting,..sugred, lingring. |
† g. Of persons: Sweet, precious. Obs.
| c 1475 Partenay 3848 Adieu, my sugret suete souerain lorde! 1583 Wastnes in Melbancke's Philotimus To Author, God prosper thee (my sugred darling boy). |