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sugaring

sugaring

3.1
To cover food with sugar to make it sweet and shiny
  • noun
  • /ˈʃʌɡərɪŋ/
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  • The baker is sugaring the pastry to give it a glossy finish before serving.

Examples

  • During the holiday season, many people enjoy sugaring cookies to add a festive touch.

  • Nanny had been so impressed that she had set it on the "special" shelf while Granddad was busy sugaring doughnuts.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The chef is sugaring the strawberries to enhance their sweetness and make them look more appealing.

How Sugary

sugaring
3.1
sprinkling
5 2.5

Surface Forms

sugaring singular
sugarings plural

Morphology

sugaring = sugar (transparent) = sugar + ing

Direct nominalization/gerund from the verb 'to sugar' describing the action of coating or glazing with sugar.

Etymology

Sugaring comes from the word sugar, which comes from an old Indian word sharkara meaning 'sand' because sugar began as small crystals. In cooking, sugaring means coating or glazing food with sugar to make it sweet and shiny, so the word is about adding sugar to food.