sugarplum

[ shoo g-er-pluhm ]
/ ˈʃʊg ərˌplʌm /

noun

a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.

Origin of sugarplum

First recorded in 1600–10; sugar + plum1

Example sentences from the Web for sugarplum

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

    Mary Ware in Texas |Annie F. Johnston
  • 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.

British Dictionary definitions for sugarplum

sugarplum
/ (ˈʃʊɡəˌplʌm) /

noun

a crystallized plum