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sugar plum

sugar plum is the alternative spelling of sugar-plum.

Meaning of sugar-plum

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.

See all 7 meanings of sugar-plum

Forms of sugar plum

pluralsugar plums

Questions about sugar plum

What is sugar plum the alternative spelling of?
Sugar plum is the alternative spelling of sugar-plum.

Words near sugar plum in the dictionary

  1. sugar pills
  2. sugar pimp
  3. sugar pimps
  4. sugar pine
  5. sugar pines
  6. sugar plum
  7. sugar plums
  8. sugar report
  9. sugar reports
  10. sugar rush
  11. sugar rushes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sugar plum (page history and authors); sugar-plum (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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