sweet-shop

[ sweet-shop ]

/ ˈswitˌʃɒp /

a store that sells candy.

Words nearby sweet-shop

First recorded in 1875–80

She seemed to find nothing odd in the fact of a small boy being in charge of a sweet-shop.
Just William|Richmal Crompton
The man in the sweet-shop told him his only chance of getting a paper was at the railway station.
The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's|Talbot Baines Reed
She was to feel henceforth as if she were flattening her nose upon the hard window-pane of the sweet-shop of knowledge.
What Maisie Knew|Henry James
But little Publius knew a sweet-shop, and a trick worth two of that.
The Forsyte Saga, Complete|John Galsworthy

The proprietor of the sweet-shop, however, was not sensitive.
Just William|Richmal Crompton