suga

English: ‘sugar’.

See original Mihalic entry.

Sugar cane stacked in short lengths for wedding guests, Western Highlands, 1990.

Noun forms

  1. Food crops: sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum
    dringim suga to chew sugar cane, to suck sugar cane
    meme bilong suga the quid or cud left after chewing sugar cane

  1. Food preparation: refined sugar
    suga long haumas? how much is a packet of sugar?

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