单词 | lollipop |
释义 | lollipop (once / 19472 pages) n A lollipop is hard candy on a stick that you lick or suck. You may suck on a lollipop and be surprised to find candy or gum in its center. Bonus! Some lollipops are small, round, and fruity, while others are swirls of color as big as your head. Still other lollipops are long and skinny, or filled with liquid or bubble gum centers. The thing they all have in common is the stick you hold while eating them. Guesses about the origin of the lolli or lolly part of this word include to loll, or "dangle" the tongue, or the north England dialect "tongue" meaning of lolly. WORD FAMILYlollipop: lollipops USAGE EXAMPLESGreen’s mother works as a lollipop and dinner lady, while her daughter trains for 20 hours a week over six days. The Guardian(Dec 10, 2016) Festive fashion outfits are displayed between rock candy, large lollipops and cotton candy. Reuters(Dec 01, 2016) The windows, the “Land of 1,000 Delights,” mix eye candy with real candy: over-the-top outfits alongside lollipops twice the size of the mannequins. New York Times(Nov 25, 2016) 1n hard candy on a stick Syn|Hyper all-day sucker, sucker candy, confect a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts 2n ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick Syn|Hyper ice lolly, lolly, popsicle frozen dessert any of various desserts prepared by freezing |
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