sugar-plumn.

Etymology: < sugar n. + plum n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsugar-plum.

1. A small round or oval sweetmeat, made of boiled sugar and variously flavoured and coloured; a comfit.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > drop, lozenge, or comfit

comfit1334

pastille1451

table1580

confect1587

violet tables1620

sugar-pluma1668

plum1694

nonpareil1697

rose drop1727

lemon-drop1807

drop1818

jujube1835

pear drop1852

pandrop1877

conversation lozenge1905

cushion1906

fruit drop1907

a1668 W. Davenant Wits iv. 205 in Wks. (1673) Some Comfits Sir. A mourning Citizen Will never weep without some Sugar-plums.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. v. 44 A sensibleness in Youth for a gig or a suggar-plum, is the same afterwards for honour or interest.

1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 148. ⁋11 Little Plates of Sugar-Plumbs, disposed like so many Heaps of Hail-stones.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 2 Use it like Caraway seeds for Confects and Sugar-plums.

1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 3 May (1941) 236 Compliments flew about like sugar-plums at an Italian carnival.

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 180 A little while back there were proclamations in the papers against poisonous-coloured sugar-plums.

1859 A. K. H. Boyd Recreat. Country Parson vi. 199 Sugar-plums..damage the teeth.

1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 378 I can see now the sugar-plums, with wire stalks.

2. figurative. Something very pleasing or agreeable, esp. when given as a sop or bribe.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [noun] > source or instance of sensuous pleasure

likingeOE

feasta1393

sensualityc1425

contentation1569

contentment1579

sugar candy1591

content1594

sugar-plum1608

contentingc1620

gratification1711

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe

gift1382

handy-dandyc1390

pricec1400

bud1436

bribe?a1439

golden (also silver) keyc1450

fee1549

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greasinga1661

sop1665

sweetbreada1670

vail1687

douceur1739

sweetener1741

bonus1759

buckshee1773

smear-gelt1785

grease1823

boodle?1856

soap1860

ice1887

palm-grease1897

poultice1902

fix1929

dropsy1930

pay-off1930

drop1931

oil1935

squeeze-pidgin1946

sling1948

bung1958

back-hander1960

1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. H2^v By stopping the Constables mouth with suger-plummes (thats to say,) whilest shee poysons him with sweete words.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 129 With a perfumed Comfite, or a Sugar-plumbe in their mouth, that is, with a word of piety.

1738 tr. S. Guazzo Art of Conversat. 70 Thus you leave them with a small sugar-plumb in their mouth.

1789 (title) The Sugar Plumb; or, sweet amusements for leisure hours.

1813 C. Jackson Let. 19 Jan. in Lady Jackson Bath Archives (1873) II. 7 The little sugar-plum, in the shape of a small pension, they have put into your mouth.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 15 Her zeal for enquiry slaked for the present by the dexterous administration of this sugar-plumb.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxiv. 204 An artist..whom the rich English world was beginning to pet and pelt with gilt sugar-plums.

1883 C. Reade Many a Slip in Harper's Mag. Dec. 136/2 Whilst he delivered these sugar-plums he did not look her in the face.

†3. transferred.

a. A kind of fossil. Obsolete.

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the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > types of

astroite1610

belemnite1646

mussel-stone1660

scallop-stone1668

trochite1676

conchite1677

ophiomorphite1677

pectinite1677

worm-stone1677

musculite1681

serpent-stone1681

sugar-plum1681

glossopetraa1684

ague shell1708

forket1708

mytilite1727

grit1748

phytolithus1761

fairy beads1767

fairy fingers1780

fairy arrow1794

gryphite1794

ram's horn1797

hysterolite1799

tubulite1799

thunder-pick1801

celleporite1808

ceraunite1814

seraph1822

serpulite1828

coprolite1829

subfossil1831

pencil1843

trigonellite1845

buccinite1852

rudist1855

guide fossil1867

witch's cradle1867

coccolith1868

fairy cheeses1869

discolith1871

Portland screw1871

spiniferite1872

cyatholith1875

cryptozoon1883

sabellite1889

palaeospecies1895

homoeomorph1898

rudistid1900

megafossil1932

scolecodont1933

macrofossil1937

hystrichosphere1955

palynomorph1961

acritarch1963

molecular fossil1965

mitrate1967

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 148 An hard stone, which hangs about it like Isicles; having many others in the forme of Comfitures & suggar plumms as wee call them.]

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. §i. v. 296 A Great Tibuline Sugar-Plum.

†b. A kind of knotting. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [noun] > knot-work

knotting1697

knit-knot1703

sugar-plum1750

tatting1842

knotwork1882

1750 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 607 I cannot promise too much for you till I have finished a plain fringe I am knotting..; as soon as that is finished I will do some sugar-plum for you.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as sugar-plum box; sugar-plum chalk n. = sugar-plum land n. sugar-plum land n. dialect land having ‘a thin, short, chalky surface’.

ΚΠ

1750 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman VI. ii. 19, iii. 34 (E.D.S.)

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. iii. 70 Her ladyship's snuff-box and her sugar-plum box.

Derivatives

ˈsugar-plum v. (transitive) to reward or pacify with sweetmeats; hence, to pet, cosset.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > reward or recompense [verb (transitive)]

foryield971

yield971

crownc1175

shipec1275

payc1330

to do meeda1350

rewardc1350

guerdonc1374

reguerdona1393

to do (one) whyc1400

quitc1400

recompense1422

salary1477

merit1484

requite1530

requit1532

reacquite1534

to pay home1542

remunerate1542

regratify1545

renumerate?1549

gratify?c1550

acquit1573

consider1585

regratiate1590

guerdonize1594

munerate1595

regratulate1626

reprise1677

sugar-plum1788

ameed1807

recompensate1841

the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > foolish affection, excessive love or fondness > be infatuatedly fond or love to excess [verb (transitive)] > pet, indulge, or pamper

daunt1303

cocker1440

cherisha1450

pomper1483

daut?a1513

to cocker up1530

pamper1530

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tiddle1560

cockle1570

dandlea1577

cotchel1578

cockney1582

fondle1582

coax1589

to coax up1592

to flatter up1598

dainty1622

pet1629

cosset1659

caudle1662

faddle1688

pettle1719

coddle1786

sugar-plum1788

twattle1790

to make a fuss of or over (with)1814

mud1814

pamperizea1845

mollycoddle1851

pompey1860

cosher1861

pussy1889

molly1907

1788 H. Walpole Let. to Mrs. H. More 22 Sept. Instead of being reprimanded (and perhaps immediately after sugar-plum'd) for not learning their Latin..grammar.

1841 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 8 7 At present, pretty dear, she is coaxed and sugar-plumbed through life.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	sugar-plum
释义	sugar-plumn. Etymology: < sugar n. + plum n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsugar-plum. 1. A small round or oval sweetmeat, made of boiled sugar and variously flavoured and coloured; a comfit. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > drop, lozenge, or comfit comfit1334 pastille1451 table1580 confect1587 violet tables1620 sugar-pluma1668 plum1694 nonpareil1697 rose drop1727 lemon-drop1807 drop1818 jujube1835 pear drop1852 pandrop1877 conversation lozenge1905 cushion1906 fruit drop1907 a1668 W. Davenant Wits iv. 205 in Wks. (1673) Some Comfits Sir. A mourning Citizen Will never weep without some Sugar-plums. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. v. 44 A sensibleness in Youth for a gig or a suggar-plum, is the same afterwards for honour or interest. 1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 148. ⁋11 Little Plates of Sugar-Plumbs, disposed like so many Heaps of Hail-stones. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 2 Use it like Caraway seeds for Confects and Sugar-plums. 1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 3 May (1941) 236 Compliments flew about like sugar-plums at an Italian carnival. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 180 A little while back there were proclamations in the papers against poisonous-coloured sugar-plums. 1859 A. K. H. Boyd Recreat. Country Parson vi. 199 Sugar-plums..damage the teeth. 1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 378 I can see now the sugar-plums, with wire stalks. 2. figurative. Something very pleasing or agreeable, esp. when given as a sop or bribe. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [noun] > source or instance of sensuous pleasure likingeOE feasta1393 sensualityc1425 contentation1569 contentment1579 sugar candy1591 content1594 sugar-plum1608 contentingc1620 gratification1711 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe gift1382 handy-dandyc1390 pricec1400 bud1436 bribe?a1439 golden (also silver) keyc1450 fee1549 golden shower1589 oil of angels1592 sugar-plum1608 bribera1616 palm oil1625 greasinga1661 sop1665 sweetbreada1670 vail1687 douceur1739 sweetener1741 bonus1759 buckshee1773 smear-gelt1785 grease1823 boodle?1856 soap1860 ice1887 palm-grease1897 poultice1902 fix1929 dropsy1930 pay-off1930 drop1931 oil1935 squeeze-pidgin1946 sling1948 bung1958 back-hander1960 1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. H2^v By stopping the Constables mouth with suger-plummes (thats to say,) whilest shee poysons him with sweete words. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 129 With a perfumed Comfite, or a Sugar-plumbe in their mouth, that is, with a word of piety. 1738 tr. S. Guazzo Art of Conversat. 70 Thus you leave them with a small sugar-plumb in their mouth. 1789 (title) The Sugar Plumb; or, sweet amusements for leisure hours. 1813 C. Jackson Let. 19 Jan. in Lady Jackson Bath Archives (1873) II. 7 The little sugar-plum, in the shape of a small pension, they have put into your mouth. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 15 Her zeal for enquiry slaked for the present by the dexterous administration of this sugar-plumb. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxiv. 204 An artist..whom the rich English world was beginning to pet and pelt with gilt sugar-plums. 1883 C. Reade Many a Slip in Harper's Mag. Dec. 136/2 Whilst he delivered these sugar-plums he did not look her in the face. †3. transferred. a. A kind of fossil. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > types of astroite1610 belemnite1646 mussel-stone1660 scallop-stone1668 trochite1676 conchite1677 ophiomorphite1677 pectinite1677 worm-stone1677 musculite1681 serpent-stone1681 sugar-plum1681 glossopetraa1684 ague shell1708 forket1708 mytilite1727 grit1748 phytolithus1761 fairy beads1767 fairy fingers1780 fairy arrow1794 gryphite1794 ram's horn1797 hysterolite1799 tubulite1799 thunder-pick1801 celleporite1808 ceraunite1814 seraph1822 serpulite1828 coprolite1829 subfossil1831 pencil1843 trigonellite1845 buccinite1852 rudist1855 guide fossil1867 witch's cradle1867 coccolith1868 fairy cheeses1869 discolith1871 Portland screw1871 spiniferite1872 cyatholith1875 cryptozoon1883 sabellite1889 palaeospecies1895 homoeomorph1898 rudistid1900 megafossil1932 scolecodont1933 macrofossil1937 hystrichosphere1955 palynomorph1961 acritarch1963 molecular fossil1965 mitrate1967 c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 148 An hard stone, which hangs about it like Isicles; having many others in the forme of Comfitures & suggar plumms as wee call them.] 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. §i. v. 296 A Great Tibuline Sugar-Plum. †b. A kind of knotting. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [noun] > knot-work knotting1697 knit-knot1703 sugar-plum1750 tatting1842 knotwork1882 1750 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 607 I cannot promise too much for you till I have finished a plain fringe I am knotting..; as soon as that is finished I will do some sugar-plum for you. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as sugar-plum box; sugar-plum chalk n. = sugar-plum land n. sugar-plum land n. dialect land having ‘a thin, short, chalky surface’. ΚΠ 1750 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman VI. ii. 19, iii. 34 (E.D.S.) 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. iii. 70 Her ladyship's snuff-box and her sugar-plum box. Derivatives ˈsugar-plum v. (transitive) to reward or pacify with sweetmeats; hence, to pet, cosset. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > reward or recompense [verb (transitive)] foryield971 yield971 crownc1175 shipec1275 payc1330 to do meeda1350 rewardc1350 guerdonc1374 reguerdona1393 to do (one) whyc1400 quitc1400 recompense1422 salary1477 merit1484 requite1530 requit1532 reacquite1534 to pay home1542 remunerate1542 regratify1545 renumerate?1549 gratify?c1550 acquit1573 consider1585 regratiate1590 guerdonize1594 munerate1595 regratulate1626 reprise1677 sugar-plum1788 ameed1807 recompensate1841 the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > foolish affection, excessive love or fondness > be infatuatedly fond or love to excess [verb (transitive)] > pet, indulge, or pamper daunt1303 cocker1440 cherisha1450 pomper1483 daut?a1513 to cocker up1530 pamper1530 pimper1537 tiddle1560 cockle1570 dandlea1577 cotchel1578 cockney1582 fondle1582 coax1589 to coax up1592 to flatter up1598 dainty1622 pet1629 cosset1659 caudle1662 faddle1688 pettle1719 coddle1786 sugar-plum1788 twattle1790 to make a fuss of or over (with)1814 mud1814 pamperizea1845 mollycoddle1851 pompey1860 cosher1861 pussy1889 molly1907 1788 H. Walpole Let. to Mrs. H. More 22 Sept. Instead of being reprimanded (and perhaps immediately after sugar-plum'd) for not learning their Latin..grammar. 1841 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 8 7 At present, pretty dear, she is coaxed and sugar-plumbed through life. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1608
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