Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A candy that often has a center of fondant, fruit, or nuts and is coated with chocolate or fondant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sugar-plum; in the plural, sugar-confectionery.
Wiktionary
- n. a sweet
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French bonbon. (Wiktionary)
- French, reduplication of bon, good, from Latin bonus; see deu-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And if this bonbon is even less substantial than her customary fare, well, Valentine's Day isn't really such a major holiday, is it?”
“And the nearest I come to a bonbon is the occasional after dinner mint, which I usually end up eating after breakfast, after lunch, after a mid-afternoon snack ...”
“As I was leaving, I glimpsed a familiar face at one of the tables, sitting alone in front of a giant chocolate bonbon.”
“It's all part of a push by specialty chocolatiers to make candy more manly, and to get men to reach for a stout caramel or India Pale Ale bonbon as eagerly as they might grab a nice cold one.”
The Wall Street Journal: Hoppy Holidays: Sweet Makers Try to Tap Market for Beer Candy
“In the early 2000s, bonbon makers bumped up the dare element by introducing hot chilis to chocolate.”
The Wall Street Journal: Hoppy Holidays: Sweet Makers Try to Tap Market for Beer Candy
“Eschenbach's Mozart is healthy and notably non-neurotic, and the symphony was a buoyant bonbon, rushing along in three brief movements, dancing in an ebullient conclusion.”
The Washington Post: Eschenbach, Mozart, Mahler and the NSO -- getting along famously
“Take a break from perusing the snaps from the Kardashian wedding to check out this swollen bonbon, the second TV-movie to chart the royal lovebirds' courtship.”
“A scrumptious bonbon for the Oprah fan and for anyone who loves TV, the show lets us gape at Oprah's plush offices as her eager and anxious producers pitch ideas to the Queen of TV, then frantically go about executing their concepts and her vision.”
“(Soundbite of song, "Human Nature") MOON: This accessible little bonbon, which some purists would dismiss as a crossover move, offers a peek into the mind of Vijay Iyer.”
“Also, my bonbon was going to be two layers — caramel on top and salted milk chocolate on the bottom — but with the time being against me, I made the bonbon one layer, with all the combined flavors.”
Top Chef: Just Desserts' Sally: I Don't Regret Having Orlando Make My Showpiece
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bonbon’.
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitsconfectionary, chocolate, chew, alcorza, taffy, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
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Chocolate Passion
Words related to my favorite addiction, chocolate!
chocolate, algarroba, alkali, bean, bittersweet, bloom, cacao, cocoa, tempering, cocoa powder, fermentation, pod and 50 more...
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French words in German language
words and phrases with french background commonly used in the german language, so-called "Gallizismen"
trottoir, paravent, rayon, perron, fauteuil, garage, arrangement, etablissement, portemonnaie, parterre, coupé, voliere and 123 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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dirtysnowflake's Words
snowflake, parisian, couture, mystery, ruby, clandestine, corset, october, list, touch, caress, aboulia and 156 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (B)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
balcony, bailey, baguette, bairn, balalaika, baldric, balefire, baby's breath, ballet, balm of gilead, balsam, baluster and 188 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 441 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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pamelad's Words
lugubrious, antediluvian, decrepitude, anomaly, regurgitate, apoplexy, prolix, incapacitate, discontinuity, bellicose, inclement, frangible and 158 more...
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Isograms
Words with each letter repeated the same number of times. The pattern of repetition is tagged: 1212, 1221, 121122, 122121, 121233, 122133, 123123, 123132, 123213, 123231, 123312, 123321, 12123434, ...
deeded, sestettes, geggee, appeases, caucasus, isis, cancan, intestines, mesosome, palpal, valval, mama and 154 more...
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2007bee-r02
2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee Round 2
query, tendency, danceable, parachute, malignant, brutal, humanely, lyrically, deductible, shindig, gravel, embroidered and 274 more...
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Recently discovered subatomic particles
futon, craton, bonbon, icon, necronomicon, neocon, lexicon, aileron, metatron, moron, oberon, waitron and 4 more...
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Stuffie: Vibrate Mode
Stuffie #8. Stuff you shake.
it, booty, milk, polaroid picture, down, up, salt shaker, pepper shaker, baby, maraca, juice bottle, hands and 16 more...
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adorable words
These are all cute.
bunny, bunnies, pie, bubble, owlet, fluff, squishy, bonbon, muffin, puddle, puppy, peach and 11 more...
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List 7
Derivatives from Chapter 7 of Part One of English Words from Latin and Greek Elements
magnanimous, iniquitous, malice, multiplicity, bonbon, inanimate, millennium, aggrieve, compunction, explicit, proffer, correlation and 9 more...
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Nick nacks
I started a list on the Wordie with a different log-in and now I can't find it. Sigh. So I'm starting again. These are monosyllabic double barrels that I like the sound of. Part of our human instin...
riff-raff, ping-pong, hip-hop, flim-flam, op cit, tip-top, mish-mash, flap-dash, nick-nack, lap-top, can-can, slap-dash and 60 more...
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