sugary snack
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- noun
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snack azucarado
- Convenience store snacks only go so far for your family, and a diet filled with heavy meals and sugary snacks can lead to upset stomachs and crabbiness.
Examples
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Instead of reaching for a sugary snack, try some fresh fruit for a healthier option.
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All these sugary snacks!
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I've been keeping a healthy diet full of vegetables and fruits, and have kept away from sugary snacks.
Blog text (12) -
He peruses the sundry sugary snacks, looking for just the right fix.
Fiction book (2002) -
After school, the kids always look forward to a sugary snack before dinner.
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To satisfy her sweet tooth, she often grabs a sugary snack like a candy bar in the afternoon.
Synonyms
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A small sweet made from sugar, often with chocolate or nuts
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A sweet made of chocolate or sugar that you eat as a snack
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A small sugary food eaten after a meal
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A small sweet food people eat for pleasure
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A flat sweet cookie made from simple dough often decorated with icing or sugar
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Sweet food like candy or a small cake
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A sweet treat on a stick like a lollipop or an ice pop
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A small sweet food like candy or fruit covered in sugar eaten as a treat
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A small sweet made with chocolate and eaten as a treat
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A hard sweet made by boiling sugar and letting it cool
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A small soft candy that you chew
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Fruit cooked in sugar syrup and coated in sugar for a sweet treat
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A food or drink that has a lot of sugar and tastes very sweet
A small piece of candy or chocolate
A chewy candy made from sugar and butter that people pull and stretch
A soft, chewy candy that tastes like fruit
A thin hard sweet made with honey that breaks easily
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Morphology
The meaning 'a sweet light food often eaten between meals' is directly and predictably composed from 'sugary' (sweet, containing sugar) + 'snack' (a light food between meals). This adjective+noun composition follows a standard, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Sugary snack comes from the simple picture of a small, quick bite that is full of sugar: sugary means sweet and snack means a small food eaten between meals. So, the phrase refers to 'a sweet treat eaten between meals'.