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brandyball

brandyball is the alternative form of brandy ball.

Meaning of brandy ball

Noun

brandy ball (plural brandy balls)

  1. A traditional boiled sweet like a bullseye, flavoured with peppermint, cinnamon, etc.
    • And yet I discovered, when a frequently recurring fit of sickness had forced Job to keep a strict look-out, that this unprincipled old man was in the habit of enticing the boy to his rooms and there feeding him upon unlimited quantities of brandy-balls, and making him promise to say nothing about...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Forms of brandyball

pluralbrandyballs

Questions about brandyball

What is brandyball the alternative form of?
Brandyball is the alternative form of brandy ball.

Words near brandyball in the dictionary

  1. brandy snaps
  2. brandy snifter
  3. brandy snifters
  4. brandy-smash
  5. brandy-smashes
  6. brandyball
  7. brandyballs
  8. brandying
  9. brandyless
  10. brandylike
  11. brandysnap

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