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sugar-plum

sugar-plum noun: a round or oval sweet/piece of candy made of boiled sugar.

Noun

sugar-plum (plural sugar-plums)

  1. A round or oval sweet/piece of candy made of boiled sugar.
  2. (dated) A piece of flattery.
  3. Term of endearment: sweetheart, darling.
  4. Uapaca kirkiana, an southern African fruit tree.
  5. The fruit of this tree.
  6. The prune plum.

Verb

sugar-plum (third-person singular simple present sugar-plums, present participle sugar-plumming, simple past and past participle sugar-plummed)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive) to daydream

sugar-plum meaning in Tamil and Bengali

sugar-plum in Tamil

இனிப்பு மிட்டாய், காய்ச்சிய சர்க்கரைப் பாகுருண்டை

sugar-plum in Bengali

এক টুকরো তোষামোদ, প্রিয়তম, সোহাগী, এই গাছের ফল, প্রুন প্লাম, দিবাস্বপ্ন দেখা

Synonyms of sugar-plum

Forms of sugar-plum

Noun
pluralsugar-plums
alternative formsugar plum
alternative formsugarplum
Verb
third-person singular presentsugar-plums
present participlesugar-plumming
past participlesugar-plummed
pastsugar-plummed

Words formed from sugar-plum

  • sugar-plum chalk
  • the Sugar Plum Fairy
  • sugar-plum land

Questions about sugar-plum

What does sugar-plum mean?
Sugar-plum means a round or oval sweet/piece of candy made of boiled sugar.
What is sugar-plum in Tamil?
Sugar-plum in Tamil is இனிப்பு மிட்டாய், காய்ச்சிய சர்க்கரைப் பாகுருண்டை. See Sugar-plum meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sugar-plum?
Sugar-plum can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of sugar-plum?
The plural of sugar-plum is sugar-plums.

Words near sugar-plum in the dictionary

  1. sugar-maple borer
  2. sugar-maple borers
  3. sugar-maples
  4. sugar-mill
  5. sugar-mills
  6. sugar-plum
  7. sugar-plums
  8. sugar-sweet
  9. sugarallie
  10. sugarally
  11. sugarbag

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sugar-plum (page history and authors); sugar-plum (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sugar-plum (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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