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sugaring, vbl. n.|ˈʃʊgərɪŋ|
[f. sugar v. + -ing1.]
1. Sugary or sweet matter; sweetening. Also, the adding of sugar.
1740Cheyne Regimen 339 Noviciats in the spiritual Life are often gratified with such Sugarings for their Encouragement; but Bread is for grown Persons. 1887Cassell's Dict., Sugaring,..Sugar used for sweetening, &c. 1892Daily News 16 Sept. 5/5 The California prune..will keep better and longer without sugaring than the latter. 1907Westm. Gaz. 1 June 2/1 The less alcoholic wines of the North, artificially strengthened by sugaring.
2. U.S. The manufacture of sugar from the maple. Also sugaring off (see sugar v. 3).
1836in [Mrs. Traill] Backw. Canada App. 316 The best rule I can give as to the sugaring-off, as it is termed, is to let the liquid continue at a fast boil. 1845S. Judd Margaret ii. i. (1871) 151 The neighbors, boys and girls, come in at the ‘sugaring off’. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 206 The verb to sugar off is derived from the custom of winding up the sugaring at a certain period. 1904W. Churchill Crossing xi. 136 Then came the sugaring, the warm days and the freezing nights.
attrib.1836C. P. Traill Backw. Canada 156 Till it has arrived at the sugaring point. 1897Advance (Chicago) 8 Apr. 455/2 The sugaring parts of Ohio. 1899Atlantic Monthly Apr. 561 In sugaring time, Deacon Abram deliberately lets five barrels of maple soak.
3. (See sugar v. 1 c.) Also attrib.
1857Zoologist Ser. i. XV. 5649 Sugaring by night is certainly very profitable for Lepidoptera, ants and cockroaches. 1882Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 32 This mode of collecting is called ‘sugaring’, and is somewhat uncertain, as on some nights the sugar will be covered with Moths, and on others you will scarcely find one. 1902S. S. Sprigge Industr. Chevalier vii. 170 A midnight sugaring expedition.
4. Bribery.
1891J. P. Quinn Fools of Fortune 285 This payment is what the ‘fakirs’ call ‘sugaring’, and I have never known one of these officials for whom the dose could be made too sweet. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail xvi. 117 The old⁓time logger found these two individuals susceptible to the gentle art of ‘sugaring’.
▸ A method of removing unwanted body hair by applying a sticky caramel-like sugar mixture to the skin and then peeling the mixture off together with the hair.
1989Woman's Own 3 July 38/1 Sugaring:..small applications of sugary putty are applied to hair and pulled away in the direction of growth, thus making it less painful than waxing. 1993Toronto Star (Nexis) 3 June d2 The latest craze in hair removal is sugaring, a method Middle Eastern women have been using for thousands of years. 2001Nat. Health Oct. 30/2 You may have also heard of sugaring which is just another alternative to waxing—except the pain is all the sweeter to bear! |