sugarplum

[ shoog-er-pluhm ]
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noun
  1. a small round candy made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.

Origin of sugarplum

1
First recorded in 1600–10; sugar + plum (in the sense “small, rounded mass (of hardened sugar approximately the size of a plum)”

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How to use sugarplum in a sentence

  • A sugarplum may help one to forget a bee-sting, but a death-thrust is another matter.

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  • She had taught it him verse by verse with the patience of an angel, and she had encouraged him to learn it with many a sugarplum.

British Dictionary definitions for sugarplum

sugarplum

/ (ˈʃʊɡəˌplʌm) /


noun
  1. a crystallized plum

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