Also 6 sugerye, sugrie. [f. SUGAR sb. + -Y.]
1. Full of, containing or impregnated with sugar; pertaining to or resembling (that of) sugar; sweet, sweetened.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 49/4. Ther is a sugerye dulcor or sweetnes extracted out of Leade.
1598. Florio, Zuccheroso,… sugrie.
1707. Curios. in Husb. & Gard., 72. A sweet and sugary Juice.
1731. Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Pyrus, The Flesh is melting, and if not too ripe, of a sugary Flavour.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 118. The sugary sap of Acer saccharinum … from which sugar is extracted.
1844. Disraeli, Coningsby, I. ix. 37. The baskets of certain vendors of sugary delicacies.
1851. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., XII. I. 284. A drab-coloured, dry, ‘sugary’ silt.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Venice, I. App. xx. 397. Coarse sugary marble. Ibid. (1870), Lect. Art, vii. 176. A crystalline or sugary frost-work.
1896. A. H. Beavan, Marlborough Ho., v. 77. Her Royal Highness—Henry III. of France, and his successor, Henry, King of Navarre—being remarkably fond of all kinds of delicate sugary cates.
2. fig. Deliciously or alluringly sweet; honeyed; deceitfully or flatteringly pleasant; also, excessively or offensively sweet. Also advb.
1591. Spenser, M. Hubberd, 819. And with the sugrie sweete thereof allure Chast Ladies eares to fantasies impure.
1834. Beckford, Italy, II. 82. As I had just received a sugary epistle from this paragon of piety.
1841. L. Hunt, Seer (1864), 27. She would not have him, notwithstanding his sugary verses.
1845. Disraeli, Sybil (1863), 151. ‘Is be very violent?’ inquired her ladyship, in a sugary tone.
1855. Carlyle, Lett. to J. W. Carlyle, 2 Sept. The Dragon herself is all civility and sugary smiles.
1879. F. Harrison, Choice of Bks. (1886), i. 14. Sugary stanzas of ladylike prettiness.
1881. Miss Braddon, Asphodel, II. 268. Twenty couples were revolving to the last sugary-sweet German waltz.
† 3. Fond of sugar or sweet things. rare.
1664. Beale in Evelyn’s Pomona, 22. I did once prefer the Gennet-moyl Cider, but had only the Ladies on my side, as gentler for their sugary palats.
