white sugar

English

Etymology

From Middle English white sugur.

Pronunciation

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Noun

white sugar (countable and uncountable, plural white sugars)

1. (uncountable, countable) Refined sugar.
2. (uncountable, slang) cocaine.
3. (uncountable, slang) A white woman as a sex partner.

Related terms

• icing sugar
• brown sugar

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 白糖 (baak⁶ tong⁴)

  Mandarin: 白糖 (zh) (báitáng)

• French: sucre blanc m
• Galician: azucre branco (gl) m
• Indonesian: gula pasir (id)
• Irish: siúcra bán m
• Japanese: 白砂糖 (ja) (しろざとう, shirozatō)
• Korean: 백설탕 (ko) (baekseoltang)
• Tagalog: puting asukal