| 单词 | boiled sweet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboiled sweet boiled sweet n. originally and chiefly British a hard, often brightly-coloured sweet made of boiled sugar. ΚΠ 1862 Lancet 8 Nov. 513/2 Messrs. Hill and Jones exhibit..amongst other articles a variety of lozenges, comfits, jujubes, and boiled sweets. 1930 Times 12 Sept. 14/2 A number of cases of illness among children in Congleton and North Staffordshire after eating boiled sweets. 1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 323 It reminds me of the boiled sweets I used to buy as a child, two-tone affairs called rhubarb and custard, that left the inside of my cheek rough with sugar-shock. 2012 Country Living (Nexis) Nov. 88 Tulips are the best spring-flowering bulbs... What's more, they come in classic vivid, boiled-sweet colours—yellow, scarlet and purple. < as lemmas |
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