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Sucking candy
Answer for the clue "Sucking candy ", 8 letters:
sourball
Alternative clues for the word sourball
Word definitions for sourball in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A hard candy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1900 as "constantly grumbling person;" 1914 as a type of candy; from sour (adj.) + ball (n.1).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. round piece of tart hard candy
Usage examples of sourball.
He came up with another sourball, pulled the wrapper off, popped it in.
I half-suspected that if I could show him to be a pedophile, Jenovitz would simply pop in another sourball and sigh.
He always rolled a sound around in his mouth like a sourball until he had its taste and feel.
Abu stopped and produced from the voluminous pockets of his overcoat five stone coins and a single sourball, which he proffered with apologetic solemnity.
Grand said, taking a sourball out of the jar he always kept on his desk.
He was sucking on candy sourballs, and when he crunched them up he opened a box of Cracker Jacks.
Everyone thinks I'm an expert at coaxing noor, just because hoonish mariners hire some of them to help on our sailing ships, scooting deftly along the spars and rigging, working for umbles and sourballs.