To sugar off means to complete the process of boiling down the syrup when making maple sugar. Some Vermonters use that same verb more generally to refer to how something turns out, as in the phrase, “How did that sugar off?” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Sugar Off”
Here’s another term I learned in Vermont: to sugar off something to do with maple sugar season.
It does indeed. It has to do with completing the process of boiling down the syrup when you’re making maple sugar.
And what I found out was that people often use it to mean, how did something turn out? How did that sugar off?
Oh, I see. Just generically, even when we’re not doing maple syrup or maple trees.
Oh, that’s cool. Yeah, did that sugar off all right for you? Did that sugar off all right?
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