fairy floss
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See also: fairyfloss
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Noun[edit]
- (Australia) Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.
- 2009, Rex Ellis, Chapter 3: Cocklebiddy, the Sydney Show and Kybo Station: Go with the Flow, page 25:
- The girls were already bagging fairy floss, and stockpiling it as fast as they could.
- 2005, Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary[1], page 282:
- Sophie hands an impatient child a stick of fairy floss and sees Grace walk by, pushing the baby in his stroller.
- 2011, Jacqueline Delaney, Professor Yish Kabibble in the Curse of the Scruttles[2], page 22:
- Sergeant Snottle pulled out from under his long black chest plate a piece of pink and blue fairy floss.
Synonyms[edit]
- candy floss (British)
- cotton candy (US, Canada)
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Translations[edit]
fairy floss — see candy floss
Further reading[edit]
- Cotton candy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia