Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small round piece of sugary candy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sweetmeat made of boiled sugar and various flavoring and coloring ingredients into a round shape, or into the shape of flattened balls or disks; a bon-bon; hence, something particularly pleasing, as a bit of flattery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US Alternative spelling of
sugar-plum .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various small sugary candies
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Examples
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JeffyB honey, why you trying to hide from me sugarplum?
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The one thing that still stays in my mind from Christmas 2010 is the media coverage of the "fat sugarplum fairy."
Michelle Won: My Trip to the Nutcracker and Dinner at Po, Which Ended Up Being Nutcracker Part 2 Michelle Won 2011
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Am I worried that my daughter, having danced the dance of the sugarplum fairies will abandon her Jewish identity?
Ballet’s December Dilemma and Our Own « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009
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Many of us grew up with images of soda-guzzling polar bears instead of dancing sugarplum fairies each Christmastime.
'This American Life' bursts Coca-Cola's bubble: What's in that original recipe, anyway? Katie Rogers 2011
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The one thing that still stays in my mind from Christmas 2010 is the media coverage of the "fat sugarplum fairy."
Michelle Won: My Trip to the Nutcracker and Dinner at Po, Which Ended Up Being Nutcracker Part 2 Michelle Won 2011
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The one thing that still stays in my mind from Christmas 2010 is the media coverage of the "fat sugarplum fairy."
Michelle Won: My Trip to the Nutcracker and Dinner at Po, Which Ended Up Being Nutcracker Part 2 Michelle Won 2011
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President Obama has reserved his $4 billion Race to the Top sugarplum for states with pro-charter policies.
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I always thought it was the opposite—chopping down a tree deprived one sugarplum fairy of her wings, or whatever.
A Cut Above Fake Fir Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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The one thing that still stays in my mind from Christmas 2010 is the media coverage of the "fat sugarplum fairy."
Michelle Won: My Trip to the Nutcracker and Dinner at Po, Which Ended Up Being Nutcracker Part 2 Michelle Won 2011
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Each winter, the New York City Ballet inspires prima ballerinas of all ages with its staging of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker ™, the story of a little girl's flight through toy soldiers, cunning mice, a gifted Nutcracker, and sugarplum fairies. www. nycballet.com/nutcracker/nutcracker. html
Marie Elena Martinez: Holidays in New York City: The To-Do List Marie Elena Martinez 2010
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