Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small round piece of sugary candy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sweetmeat made of boiled sugar and various flavoring and coloring ingredients into a round shape, or into the shape of flattened balls or disks; a bon-bon; hence, something particularly pleasing, as a bit of flattery.
Wiktionary
- n. US alternative spelling of sugar-plum.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various small sugary candies
Examples
“President Obama has reserved his $4 billion Race to the Top sugarplum for states with pro-charter policies.”
“Am I worried that my daughter, having danced the dance of the sugarplum fairies will abandon her Jewish identity?”
Ballet’s December Dilemma and Our Own « The Blog at 16th and Q
“I always thought it was the opposite—chopping down a tree deprived one sugarplum fairy of her wings, or whatever.”
“The one thing that still stays in my mind from Christmas 2010 is the media coverage of the "fat sugarplum fairy.”
“Many of us grew up with images of soda-guzzling polar bears instead of dancing sugarplum fairies each Christmastime.”
“JeffyB honey, why you trying to hide from me sugarplum?”
“Each winter, the New York City Ballet inspires prima ballerinas of all ages with its staging of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker ™, the story of a little girl's flight through toy soldiers, cunning mice, a gifted Nutcracker, and sugarplum fairies. www. nycballet.com/nutcracker/nutcracker. html”
The Huffington Post: Marie Elena Martinez: Holidays in New York City: The To-Do List
“Would I have to share a room with the little sugarplum fairy?”
“Each winter, the New York City Ballet inspires prima ballerinas of all ages with its staging of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker™, the story of a little girl's flight through toy soldiers, cunning mice, a gifted Nutcracker, and sugarplum fairies. www.nycballet.com/nutcracker/nutcracker.html”
The Huffington Post: Marie Elena Martinez: Holidays in New York City: The To-Do List
“It's the time of year when we all begin to lose our minds with thoughts of stuffing our faces, buying presents and having visions of sugarplum fairies.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sugarplum’.
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Not edible
Things that sound edible but are not (usually). See Liberty's To Eat, or Not to Eat? for more diet food.
cinnabar, dulcimer, belfries, potto, maltha, grapple, loam, rake, tort, pomade, buffalo chip, wedgie and 172 more...
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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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Nicknames you shouldn't give to an ax...
primrose, snookums, lavender, piglet, rainbow sunshine, kitten, fuzzy, sweetie, wiggles, care bear, love-a-lot, cheery and 87 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
the most beautiful
velvet, wainwright, susurrous, nutmeg, pegasus, tintinnabular, gossamer, lyricism, rococo, townlet, prince, nymph and 139 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (S)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
sabian symbols, saffron, sagacious, sage, salamander, sally lunn, salmon, salsify, salt water taffy, samhain, sand dollar, sandalwood and 270 more...
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edes's Words
table talk, tuneful, bestrewn, determinate fashion, unpretending, personage, duly impressed, shirring, caw, hatchet job, gummy, comely and 225 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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S is for Sweater Puppy
My S Words
secret agent, sweater puppy, skivvies, soda jerk, surly, space madness, sad sack, sadsack, scoundrel, scrabble, shaken teddy bear..., saucy and 181 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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Spiftacular's Words
spiffy, orchestra, skulduggery, antipathy, leap, sonata, opus, dug, deed, fabulous, nifty, glisten and 221 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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In Excelsis Deo
All those words (or distinctive phrases) you only hear at a certain time of year...
Hey! This is my 100th list!adeste fideles, merry, jolly, elf, carol, caroling, eggnog, bethlehem, magi, frankincense, myrrh, deck the halls and 81 more...
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Little Bites
appetizer, antipasto, gravlax, caponata, ceviche, rumaki, drumette, potato skin, crudites, escargot, pu pu, mandram and 55 more...
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