brown sugar
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- noun
- /braʊn ˈʃʊɡər/
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- For the recipe, you need one cup of brown sugar and two eggs.
It smells like brown sugar and coffee.
- It smells like brown sugar and coffee.
- You are gonna mix in your brown sugar, your two shticks of butter.
- It looks like white and brown sugar mixed together.
- We've got a grapefruit with brown sugar garnish.
- Lips on the interwebs mention that there might be some brown sugar mixed into the beef.
Examples
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In the bowl of a food processor, combine the flour, brown sugar, and salt.
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We were wondering if we can borrow some brown sugar.
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I just got a little more brown sugar on mine.
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Put a little brown sugar on it.
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Got you a little extra brown sugar.
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I could do brown sugar, or I could do cream.
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Put some butter and brown sugar in it.
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So, take the banana slices, add some brown sugar and let it melt.
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And my mom, she'd be making me baked apples, and the whole house would smell like cinnamon and brown sugar.
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It also has brown sugar, cinnamon, orange peel and star anise.
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Morphology
The meaning 'sugar that is brown or partly refined' is directly and literally derived from combining 'brown' (the color/quality) with 'sugar' (the sweet ingredient). This straightforward compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Brown sugar comes from the simple image of brown sugar that still has some dark syrup called molasses, so it looks and tastes brown. So today it means 'sugar that is not fully refined and keeps some molasses'.