sweetshop

See also: sweet-shop and sweet shop

English

Alternative forms

• sweet shop, sweet-shop (in attributive use)

Etymology

From sweet +‎ shop.

Noun

sweetshop (plural sweetshops)

1. A shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery.
   • 2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, Rail, page 54:

     Likewise, when I go into my local sweetshop to buy a chocolate bar, the shopkeeper doesn't look me up and down, notice I'm a bit overweight, and suggest I pop round to the greengrocers next door and buy an apple instead.

2. (slang, euphemistic) A drug dealer.

Translations

shop selling predominantly confectionery

• Afrikaans: suikerwerk
• Albanian: ëmbëltore (sq)
• Arabic: صَنَاعَةُ الْحَلْوَيَات f (ṣanāʕatu l-ḥalwayāt)
• Armenian: հրուշակարան (hy) (hrušakaran)
• Azerbaijani: qənnadı
• Basque: gozogintza
• Belarusian: кандытарская f (kandytarskaja)
• Bulgarian: сладка́рница (bg) f (sladkárnica)
• Catalan: confiteria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 糖果店 (tángguǒdiàn)

• Czech: cukrářství n
• Dutch: snoepwinkel (nl) m
• Esperanto: sukeraĵejo
• Estonian: kondiitriäri, konditoria
• Finnish: makeiskauppa (fi), karkkikauppa (fi)
• French: confiserie (fr) f, pâtisserie (fr) f
• Galician: pastelería (gl) f
• Georgian: საკონდიტრო (saḳondiṭro), საკონდიტრო მაღაზია (saḳondiṭro maɣazia), საშაქარლამო (sašakarlamo), საშაქარლამო მაღაზია (sašakarlamo maɣazia), ტკბილეულობის მაღაზია (ṭḳbileulobis maɣazia)
• German: Konditorei (de) f, Süßwarengeschäft n, Süßwarenladen (de) m
• Greek: ζαχαροπλαστείο (el) n (zacharoplasteío)
• Haitian Creole: patisri
• Ido: bonbonerio
• Indonesian: toko kue
• Irish: taosráin f
• Italian: pasticceria (it) f, confetteria f
• Japanese: 菓子屋 (ja) (かしや, kashiya), お菓子屋 (ja) (おかしや, o-kashiya)
• Ladino: dulseria, shekerdjilik
• Macedonian: слатка́рница f (slatkárnica)
• Malay: penganan (ms)
• Norman: boutique à chucrîns f
• Persian: قنادی (fa) (qannâdi)
• Polish: cukiernia (pl) f
• Portuguese: doçaria (pt) f, doceria (pt) f, pastelaria (pt) f
• Romanian: cofetărie (ro) f
• Russian: конди́терская (ru) f (kondíterskaja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: посластичарница f, сластичарница f, сластичарна f, посластичара f,бомбонџија f

  Roman: poslastičarnica (sh) f, slastičarnica (sh) f, slastičarna (sh) f, poslastičara f, bombondžija (sh) f

• Slovak: cukráreň f
• Slovene: slaščičarna f
• Spanish: confitería (es) f, dulcería (es) f, caramelería f
• Swedish: godisaffär c, godisbutik (sv) c
• Turkish: şekerlemeci dükkânı, pastane (tr)
• Ukrainian: конди́терська f (kondýtersʹka), конди́терська крамни́ця f (kondýtersʹka kramnýcja)
• Uzbek: qandolat mahsulotlari
• Vietnamese: bánh cửa hàng
• Welsh: siop losin