Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A light, very sweet candy of threaded sugar, often tinted with food coloring and twirled onto a stick. Also called spun sugar.
Wiktionary
- n. US Melted sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature
Etymologies
- From cotton + candy. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Passing Mr. Luckner, Griffin saw him eating a huge cotton candy cone like a little kid.”
“So did she, but to abandon the faÇade of cotton candy would be to lose all that had made her famous and desirable.”
“Panchito’s mother stopped a cotton candy man and bought a fluffy pink bouquet.”
“They can snag free cotton candy at the Santa Monica Pier or drop in on Michael Jackson's dermatologist for 25-percent-off Botox injections so that frazzled commuters won't look quite so frazzled.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cotton candy’.
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Crayon Colors
This is a continuing list of Crayon Colors past and present. As I find new ones added to the "box", I will add them here as well!
black, blue, brown, apricot, bittersweet, blue green, blue violet, brick red, burnt sienna, carnation pink, cornflower, flesh and 134 more...
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitstaffy, alcorza, chew, chocolate, confectionary, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
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American English that's not in Irish ...
Well-known phrases in American English that aren't understood in Irish English.
front the money, freshman, Band-Aid, bandaid, stroller, knock on wood, cotton candy, Saran Wrap, Scotch tape, bumped, doorbuster, molasses and 3 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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candy cane heroin
sex, sexual, branden, rozz, candy cane, candy canes, cotton candy, may day, may, taurus, heroin, love and 134 more...
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My Little Ponies 3
A list of My Little Pony names from the G3 collection. 2003-present
wysteria, rainbow dash, sweetberry, sunny daze, kimono, minty, pinkie pie, sparkleworks, star swirl, autumn skye, butterscotch, moondancer and 361 more...
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Evocative smells
They remind me of a particular time, place, or activity
cigar smoke, apples, tea roses, wild roses, lysol, shoe polish, linseed oil, school house, coal dust, mock orange, chlorine, violets and 116 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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Crayola Crayon Colors Circa 1998
almond, antique brass, apricot, aquamarine, asparagus, atomic tangerine, banana mania, beaver, bittersweet, black, blizzard blue, blue and 108 more...
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My Little Ponies
A list of My Little Pony names from the original (G1) collection. 1982-1992
cotton candy, butterscotch, blossom, blue belle, minty, snuzzle, seashell, bubbles, bow tie, applejack, sunbeam, medley and 352 more...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names I
Tulip Names II: You Know My Name
A Myriad of Iriia la mode, ace o' hearts, acclimation, adhesion, admirable, adorable you, advance, affirmed, after glow, agricola, alabama melody, alabaster queen and 1152 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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(Medical) Marijuana Strains
Names of various "medicinal" Cannabis strains, harvested from various sources.
grape ape, grape wreck, trainwreck, black domina, sweet wreck, cal-p, jack herer, purple princess, northern lights #5, amnesia haze, c5 haze, cambodian haze and 685 more...
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More Reasons to Eat Refined Sugars!
A list of U.S. national candy holidays, as defined by the National Confectioners Association. (In most cases, just add "National" before the word/phrase and "Day" after it. Voila! A holiday!)
chocolate, candy cane, chocolate-covered..., cotton candy, bittersweet choco..., caramel apple, candy corn, white chocolate, international cho..., toasted marshmallow, s’mores, chocolate chip and 16 more...
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Mibble's Words
honkus of the bonkus, peace, flutterby, coinkydink, adjudicate, sleep, dream, butt munch, puppy, music, hory mory, holy crappy moley and 30 more...
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Food items offered "on-a-stick" at th...
Fair Square, Twinkie log on-a-..., Buffalo chicken o..., Carmellows on-a-s..., carmel apple, sesame chicken on..., cajun chicken on-..., cheese on-a-stick, corn dog, pork chop on-a-stick, pickle on-a-stick, pretzel rods dipp... and 47 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cotton candy.

jodi AmE; for IrE, use candy floss May 1, 2011
reesetee Maybe it's used for insulation? Jul 28, 2008
jennarenn Oh, that *is* tacky. Besides, why would you want cotton candy in December? It's clearly an outdoor treat. Jul 19, 2008
reesetee National Cotton Candy Day: December 7. What's a Pearl Harbor? Nov 8, 2007