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View synonyms for sugarplum

sugarplum

[ shoog-er-pluhm ]

noun

  1. a small round candy made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.

sugarplum

/ ˈʃʊɡəˌplʌm /

noun

  1. a crystallized plum
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sugarplum1

First recorded in 1600–10; sugar + plum (in the sense “small, rounded mass (of hardened sugar approximately the size of a plum)”
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Example Sentences

A sugarplum may help one to forget a bee-sting, but a death-thrust is another matter.

She had taught it him verse by verse with the patience of an angel, and she had encouraged him to learn it with many a sugarplum.

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