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- noun dated Any
sweet ,sugary edible ;confectionery .
Etymologies
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Deffinedelee twoo….ahl deh gud sweetstuff u naud supposed to hab….but broccoli and yukkee stuff laike dat iz gud fur u….iz a bad joke by deh Almighty or universal bad karma….ur pard ub deh penaltees ub originul sinz.
“toastr is gud nap spot” you sed. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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It had begun early, you will remember, with a vigil in a little sweetstuff shop next door to the
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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And then the whole tumultuous rush has passed and the Iping street with its gauds and flags is deserted save for the still raging unseen, and littered with cocoanuts, overthrown canvas screens, and the scattered stock in trade of a sweetstuff stall.
The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006
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The children drifted past, eyeing the pink sticks of sweetstuff.
Jacob's Room 2004
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Dulverton town to buy sweetstuff for Annie, else my stupid head would have gone astray with their great out-coming.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Abruptly one bulging gas-lit window broke the blue twilight like a bull's-eye lantern; and Valentin stopped an instant before a little garish sweetstuff shop.
The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003
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The toy and sweetstuff shop was kept by an old woman of repellent manners, and so was the little fish shop at the end of the street.
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Nor till he had licked the last of the sticky sweetstuff from his little finger did Kim note that the Kamboh too was girt for travel.
Kim 2003
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'Coqueline-Walhaert, _negotiant_,' is the sign over the establishment wherein a very infirm old woman sells centimes 'worth of sweetstuff to the _jeunesse_ of Janenne, whilst her husband works at the quarries.
Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray
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No schoolboy can do without his sweetstuff, and here it is.
Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various
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