sugarplum

[ shoog-er-pluhm ]

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noun

a small round candy made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.

Origin of sugarplum

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

He then puts on a pot of coffee and the rich smell of hazelnut rouses the rest of the family from their sugar plum dreams.
Coca –Cola, M&M’s, & More Classic Holiday Commercials (VIDEO) | Brittany Jones-Cooper | December 22, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
Spain is at war with North America, and now offers us this sugar-plum to draw us to her side to defend her against invasion.
The Philippine Islands | John Foreman
Sometimes only a big sugar plum, but oftener something pretty and useful.
The Story of the Big Front Door | Mary Finley Leonard
Punish if you must; but be kind too, and let the sugar-plum go with the rod.
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They used to call a sugar-plum a plumb in Shakspeare's time.
The Art of Entertaining | M. E. W. Sherwood

Then she replied, calling him sugar plum and tootsy wootsy and tiddley-winks.
Edgar Saltus: The Man | Marie Saltus

British Dictionary definitions for sugarplum

sugarplum

/ (ˈʃʊɡəˌplʌm) /

noun

a crystallized plum

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