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Sugarplum

Sugarplum \Sug"ar*plum`\, n. A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

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sugarplum

n. (context US English) (alternative spelling of sugar-plum English)

WordNet
sugarplum

n. any of various small sugary candies

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Sugarplum

Sugarplum is a common name for several plants and may refer to:

  • Amelanchier canadensis
  • Diospyros virginiana

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Usage examples of "sugarplum".

Long after the others had gone home I had the dance studio all to myself on a Friday afternoon, and I was lost in the world of the Sugarplum Fairy, intent upon 155 giving this role something different, when suddenly Julian was dancing with me.

One of them, the sentry at the door, had not time to see me before I gave him a sugarplum in his stomach, and then, before the others could come out, I jumped on the horse and was off like a shot.

His reason must be entirely gone, he told himself despairingly, to even think of trying to approach the Little Sugarplum after all that had happened.

It was agony for Hamid-Jones to sit there making small talk, with the Little Sugarplum separated from him by no more than a few strands of braided cords, but it would have been worse agony to leave.

Scheffler was to blame, oh, how happy she would have been with a little sugarplum baby, something she could love to pieces and swathe in crocheted blankets and cover with lace and ribbons and little kisses in cross-stitch.

We allowed faith, hope and trust to come and dance like sugarplums in our heads.

Everyone from the Red Ring all the way up to the Elite on 24-G suddenly stop what they are doing, sit bolt upright, awake in horror, close their eyes and open their minds, take pause, reconsider, swallow hard, reflect, fall silent, understand--as visions of the sugarplums dance through their heads.

Christians, an established critic of Catholics, and someone outside the Harvard faculty, so that he could give sugarplums to the College and sharpen his pens against us with the appearance of objectivity.

But her lover consoled her and brought her a bright casket of gold in which lay some oval sugarplums which she partook.

His refusal to partake of any of the dishes that made up the second course did draw comment from his mama, but as she ascribed his loss of appetite to a surfeit of sugarplums, he could only be sorry that she had noticed his abstention.

It was only how to put a core of truth within the ornaments, that every sugarplum, in fact, might have an almond or caraway seed in it—.