sugar-plum

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sugar-plum

noun sugar-plums · sugar plum · sugarplum

  1. A round or oval sweet/piece of candy made of boiled sugar.
  2. dated A piece of flattery.
  3. Term of endearment: sweetheart, darling.
  4. Uapaca kirkiana, an southern African fruit tree.
  5. The fruit of this tree.
  6. The prune plum.

Similar: boiled sweet

verb sugar-plums · sugar-plumming · sugar-plummed · sugar plum · sugarplum

  1. colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive to daydream

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@misc{sugar_plum_2026,
  title = {sugar-plum},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sugar-plum},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}