Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small candy made of sweetened, colored, and flavored gum arabic or gelatin and often coated with sugar.
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- noun A small
candy made withcorn syrup ,gelatin and some flavouring oils or powders.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals
Etymologies
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Examples
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She had come to Fruit Chew Meadow for flavoring for the red gumdrop trees—and to visit Berry.
Magic Hearts Helen Perelman 2011
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She had come to Fruit Chew Meadow for flavoring for the red gumdrop trees—and to visit Berry.
Magic Hearts Helen Perelman 2011
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She had come to Fruit Chew Meadow for flavoring for the red gumdrop trees—and to visit Berry.
Magic Hearts Helen Perelman 2011
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She had come to Fruit Chew Meadow for flavoring for the red gumdrop trees—and to visit Berry.
Magic Hearts Helen Perelman 2011
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I bet the campus is in a grove of gumdrop trees and water fountains are filled with Ecto Cooler, too.
Adam Goldstein: Before You Accept, Check the School's Free Speech Record 2010
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Gingerbread houses are fun to decorate, especially if you have a couple of kids or grandkids handy to help make some of the big design decisions, such as “should this gumdrop be red or green?”
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Mattia and Alice happen to be going to the same school, and Alice, systematically tormented by Mean Girls who could have come out of an American "After School Special," is made to eat a gumdrop that has been dragged through "balls of dust and tangles of hair," which doesn't help her anorexia very much.
Book World: Carolyn See reviews Paolo Giordano's 'The Solitude of Prime Numbers' Carolyn See 2010
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Yet … when he did it … rainbows and gumdrop trees always seemed to sprout in her mind.
Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010
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MY WINNER: Michael Voltaggio's tomato gumdrop and bacon dippin 'dots -- surprising and delicious.
Samantha Zalaznick: Reporting From The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen 2010
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I bet the campus is in a grove of gumdrop trees and water fountains are filled with Ecto Cooler, too.
Before You Accept, Check the School's Free Speech Record 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word gumdrop
“Not the buttons! Not my gumdrop buttons!�?
-Gingerbread Man, Shrek
July 23, 2009
reesetee commented on the word gumdrop
Heehee!
July 23, 2009