Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A coarse sweetmeat, made of sugar and treacle, usually with the addition of butter and flour; taffy.
  • noun plural Sweets; bonbons; candies.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of lollipop.

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Examples

  • Whereas the general public is quite concerned and reasonably so about the proliferation of 'lollypop' girls; those with huge heads and stick figured bodies, there is far less concern about the proliferation of obesity and health issues related to being overweight.

    Archive 2007-02-01 The Eternal Postdoc 2007

  • Whereas the general public is quite concerned and reasonably so about the proliferation of 'lollypop' girls; those with huge heads and stick figured bodies, there is far less concern about the proliferation of obesity and health issues related to being overweight.

    Why do people only come in XXL or XXS? The Eternal Postdoc 2007

  • The BrainPort is a tiny video camera attached to a pair of sunglasses which are linked to a plastic "lollypop" the user places on their tongue to read the electrical pulses.

    FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010

  • Nigel Humphrey, 50, from Belvedere Avenue, Lancing, narrowly missed crashing into 44-year-old Anne Ford and hit her 'lollypop' with his Landrover as she stood terrified in the middle of West Street, Sompting, last July.

    unknown title 2009

  • We've been married 35 years, and I'm not saying he's not human, and I'm not stupid enough to think he's never "undressed" a voluptuous little lollypop with his eyes, but I'm seriously insecure and it's not fair, that at our age, he looks like a mature, gracefully aging Clark Kent and I look like an old Peppermint Patty.

    Pat Gallagher: Post-50 One-Night Stands: Don't Try This at Home! Pat Gallagher 2012

  • We've been married 35 years, and I'm not saying he's not human, and I'm not stupid enough to think he's never "undressed" a voluptuous little lollypop with his eyes, but I'm seriously insecure and it's not fair, that at our age, he looks like a mature, gracefully aging Clark Kent and I look like an old Peppermint Patty.

    Pat Gallagher: Post-50 One-Night Stands: Don't Try This at Home! Pat Gallagher 2012

  • One shining example would be with the lollypop scene.

    2009 August 2009

  • We've been married 35 years, and I'm not saying he's not human, and I'm not stupid enough to think he's never "undressed" a voluptuous little lollypop with his eyes, but I'm seriously insecure and it's not fair, that at our age, he looks like a mature, gracefully aging Clark Kent and I look like an old Peppermint Patty.

    Pat Gallagher: Post-50 One-Night Stands: Don't Try This at Home! Pat Gallagher 2012

  • For "Silver Cupcake Paper Dress," Mr. Cotton printed out snapshots of, among other things, a lollypop, two red lips and a multi-tiered cake, and paired them with a charcoal drawing of a woman wearing the cake as a hat.

    An Artist Sweetens the Lot Alexandra Cheney 2011

  • Push a wooden skewer or lollypop stick into each of four medium-sized apples.

    Nigel Slater's classic toffee apple recipe 2011

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