"brown-sugary" meaning in English

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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1885, The National Live-Stock Journal, volume 16, page 33, column 3:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "The strong, brown-sugary smell of the Phloxes again is very disagreeable to some people; […]",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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!”",
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          "ref": "1949, Christopher Morley, “Defence in Depth”, in The Man Who Made Friends with Himself, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 216:",
          "text": "Perhaps, in that coarse brown-sugary sand, by flashlight, I could have missed Salmon’s ankle or shoulder if he was buried there.",
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          "text": "[…] 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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Excellent sides include brown-sugary sweet-potato casserole and bitter greens.",
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          "ref": "2017, Julie Miller, Military Grade Mistletoe, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 20:",
          "text": "Daisy untied the bow and pulled open the bag to sniff the creamy brown-sugary goodies.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "i’m usually a chocolate-in-my-cookies kind of gal, but for brown-sugary, caramel-packed bars, I’ll make an exception.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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!”",
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          "ref": "1949, Christopher Morley, “Defence in Depth”, in The Man Who Made Friends with Himself, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 216:",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Excellent sides include brown-sugary sweet-potato casserole and bitter greens.",
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