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fairy floss

fairy floss noun: synonym of cotton candy.

Noun

fairy floss (uncountable)

  1. (Australia) Synonym of cotton candy.
    • Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74
    • The girls were already bagging fairy floss, and stockpiling it as fast as they could.2009, Rex Ellis, “Cocklebiddy, the Sydney Show and Kybo Station: Go with the Flow” (chapter 3), in Go with the Flow, Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, →ISBN, page 25
    Synonyms:
    cotton candy

Examples of fairy floss in a sentence

  • Sophie hands an impatient child a stick of fairy floss and sees Grace walk by, pushing the baby in his stroller.2005, Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary, →ISBN, page 282:
  • Sergeant Snottle pulled out from under his long black chest plate a piece of pink and blue fairy floss.2011, Jacqueline Delaney, Professor Yish Kabibble in the Curse of the Scruttles, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 22:

Synonyms of fairy floss

Forms of fairy floss

alternative formfairyfloss

Origin of fairy floss

From fairy + floss. First attested in the 1850s.

Words formed from fairy floss

Questions about fairy floss

What does fairy floss mean?
Fairy floss means synonym of cotton candy.
How do you use fairy floss in a sentence?
Sophie hands an impatient child a stick of fairy floss and sees Grace walk by, pushing the baby in his stroller.
What part of speech is fairy floss?
Fairy floss is a noun.

Words near fairy floss in the dictionary

  1. fairy doors
  2. fairy dust
  3. fairy duster
  4. fairy dusters
  5. fairy fire
  6. fairy floss
  7. fairy flycatcher
  8. fairy flycatchers
  9. fairy folk
  10. fairy fort
  11. fairy forts

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