how to pronounce sugar

/ˈʃʊɡɚ/

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sugar is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of sugar in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… right carbs and sugar this is a 190 …”

meanings of sugar

noun:

Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
Diabetes.
Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
A kiss.
Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
Heroin.
Money.
A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
A specific variety of sugar.
Syntactic sugar.
A term of endearment.

verb:

To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.
To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
To compliment (a person).
To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.

interjection:

Used in place of shit!.

name:

A surname.

sugar frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word sugar occurs in english on average 131.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics sugar can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sugar can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;