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- noun Plural form of
jujube .
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Examples
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They are called jujubes, which always make me wonder if the inventor of the jujubees, the movie candy, was Korean – LOL!
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Ronald Reagan famously scoffed jelly beans, not "jujubes".
The Atlantic and Its Enemies by Norman Stone DD Guttenplan 2010
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"fruitoholic," Hamilton grows a whole range of unusual fruits such as jujubes, loquats and filberts.
ajc.com - News C.W. Cameron 2010
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Sherpa: “You should have enough jujubes to last through the Don Giovanni pas de deux.”
Thoughts on High Culture: Opening Night at the Ballet Con Chapman 2011
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The jujubes were jujubey and the candy canes were pepperminty.
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I was never big on jellies, jujubes or gumdrops but there were these orange and lemon slices, gumdroppy, sugared and with a rind like the real fruit but just harder sugar.
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Sherpa: “You should have enough jujubes to last through the Don Giovanni pas de deux.”
Thoughts on Culture at the Boston Ballet Con Chapman 2011
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If you don't like the meal plan you are currently on, talk to the bursar's office, or there are vending machines with Cracker Jack and jujubes in the basement of your dormitory.
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Hacked all the personality out of the bushes and clipped them into neat, rounded shapes—a row of giant jujubes.
Ancient, Strange, and Lovely Susan Fletcher 2010
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Light, fluffy, as much substance as a cloud, carefully avoiding making anyone put any more brain-power into it than it takes to shove another handful of jujubes into their mouth.
May 4th, 2008 archmage 2008
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In my yakgwa, ground ginger and cinnamon recall the gently sugared flavors of Korean staples like sujeonggwa, a refreshing cinnamon punch, and yaksik, a lovely sweetened rice with chestnuts, pine nuts and jujubes (a kind of red date).
The Amber Gleam of Yakgwa, South Korea’s ‘It’ Cookie Eric Kim 2023
brtom commented on the word jujubes
Sitting on his throne, sucking red jujubes white.
Joyce, Ulysses, 8
January 3, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word jujubes
See also tarzan jubes.
April 18, 2009