brown-sugary

• brown sugary

From brown sugar +‎ -y.

brown-sugary (comparative more brown-sugary, superlative most brown-sugary)

1. Resembling or characteristic of brown sugar.
   • 1854 July 6, A Worcestershire Man [pseudonym], “Pines (Queen’s) Deficient in Flavour”, in George W[illiam] Johnson, editor, The Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman’s Companion, volume XII, London: […] W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr and Co., […], page 266, column 1:

     A gentleman residing in Devonshire, and, therefore, in a warm and growing climate, has failed in his Pine crop, inasmuch as the fruit, when cut and brought to table, though fine in size, tastes, as we should say of a turnip in my country, mosey, and has one insipid, brown-sugary flavour pervading it, and no other.

   • 1885, The National Live-Stock Journal, volume 16, page 33, column 3:

     The color of the Tamworth, usually described as red, and by the Shrewsbury judges called sandy, is a sort of brown-sugary yellow or yellowish brown, with more or less of a reddish tinge.

   • 1886 September 4, T. W. G., “Garden in the House. Hardy Flowers for Cutting.”, in The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in All Its Branches, volume XXX, number 772, London: Office: […], page 210, column 1:

     The strong, brown-sugary smell of the Phloxes again is very disagreeable to some people; […]

   • 1894 October 13, “Castles in the Air”, in Littell’s Living Age, sixth series, volume IV / CCIII, number 2623, Boston, Mass.: Littell and Co., page 123, column 1:

     Where the chalk has been burnt and it crumbles it assumes the look of brown sugar, and wherever this brown-sugary appearance is present about the rock windows and doors of one of these castles in the air, we know the manner of its reduction.

     Republished from The Cornhill Magazine, which used brown sugary.

   • 1906 March 20, “Winter Blusters In: Volleys of Snow Accompany Shrieking North Wind. […]”, in The Detroit Free Press, volume 71, number 177, Detroit, Mich., page 12, column 6:

     The D. P. W. men wrestled with the brown-sugary stuff that impeded traffic on the paved streets, and they are doomed to wrestle again today, according to the best advices from the weather bureau.

   • 1916 March 23, C[harles] A[sbury] Stephens, “[Stories of the Old Home Farm] III. “Long Sweetening.””, in The Youth’s Companion, volume 90, number 12, Boston, Mass.: Perry Mason Company, page 154, column 4:

     There seemed to be a considerable amount of sugar and thick syrup. / “Guess you got your money’s worth,” Bronson remarked. “Whew, but doesn’t it smell brown-sugary!”

   • 1949, Christopher Morley, “Defence in Depth”, in The Man Who Made Friends with Himself, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 216:

     Perhaps, in that coarse brown-sugary sand, by flashlight, I could have missed Salmon’s ankle or shoulder if he was buried there.

2. With brown sugar.

   Synonym: brown-sugared

   • 1925, The New Merry-Go-Round, volume 3, page 133:

     […] what interested them even more was that he showed them how to cook sand-pies and cakes in the sun so that they tasted not of sand at all, but of the most delicious brown-sugary shortbread.

   • 1929 September 20, “Hot Biscuits… for Dessert? Just try them with Amaizo Butterscotch Syrup”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 146, number 23,690, Sacramento, Calif., page twenty, column 1:

     The real old-time butterscotch flavor—you’ll know it as soon as you taste it. Rich and brown-sugary. Smooth and crystal clear, as homemade butterscotch sauces seldom can be.

   • 2009, E. Lockhart [pseudonym; Emily Jenkins], “I Unleash the Powers of Magic Cookies”, in The Treasure Map of Boys, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 115:

     We bit into our chocolate chip cookies, brown-sugary and delicious, and I wished, fervently, that somehow, today, I would know what to do with myself when it came to boys.

   • 2014, Jane and Michael Stern, Roadfood: The Coast-to-Coast Guide to 900 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, Highway Diners, and Much, Much More, Now in Its 9th Edition, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, w:Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 272:

     Excellent sides include brown-sugary sweet-potato casserole and bitter greens.

   • 2017, Julie Miller, Military Grade Mistletoe, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 20:

     Daisy untied the bow and pulled open the bag to sniff the creamy brown-sugary goodies.

   • 2017, Molly Gilbert, One Pan & Done: Hassle-Free Meals from the Oven to Your Table, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, w:Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 236:

     i’m usually a chocolate-in-my-cookies kind of gal, but for brown-sugary, caramel-packed bars, I’ll make an exception.