Meaning

(countable) A bag, typically made of cloth, for holding sugar..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A bag, typically made of cloth, for holding sugar.
2. (uncountable, Australia) Wild honey or honeycomb.

Example Sentences

Bradly hung the fowl in a sugar-bag for to-morrow's dinner and set about grilling chops, with tomatoes stuffed with cheese and breadcrumbs in the pan.

He took the reeking sack as if there were indeed huskies waiting to devour its contents and added it to his load: a sugarbag of provisions, a bottle of fresh water from the tap in the yard that went stright down to another invisible river that flowed far beneath their feet.

Still clinging, with sharp, expert blows she tomahawked into the hollow, exactly at the spot where the sugar-bag was.

One day Djungun said to his wives, 'I will help you to hunt for sugarbag.'

That way — north. And he tryin to go right to Akwerrkepentye. And he reckon he bin seein 'What's this one?' And he can hearem, you know. 'Ay, sugarbag, some one. Might be sugarbag here.' And he can hearem, 'Ah, yeah, sugarbag, all right.'

Two significant resources requiring special tools were tree grubs and wild honey or 'sugarbag'.

Sugarbag is a widely used colloquial Aboriginal-English name for the honey from native bees.

While gathering 'sugarbag', or native honey, a day or so later, the young teenagers again came very close to being shot: The troopers were dog tired. Rosie was up in the tree chopping out a sugarbag with a stone axe.

Word Forms

• sugarbags
• sugar bag
• sugar-bag

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Use sugar bag when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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