cotton candy

noun

1. a fluffy, sweet confection whipped from spun sugar and gathered or wound around a stick or cone-shaped paper core.

cotton candy

noun

1. a very light fluffy confection made from coloured spun sugar, usually held on a stick Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)candyfloss Austral namefairyfloss

Word History and Origins

Origin of cotton candy¹

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

Example Sentences

So it might come as a surprise then, that what Americans know today as cotton candy was indeed created by a dentist.

From Popular-Science

I’m pretty confident that if you ask any modern dentist today, they’d tell you that cotton candy isn’t all that great for your teeth.

From Popular-Science

In the distance, the Virginia mainland stayed low to the ground, a dark green strip underlining a pale lapis blue sky, empty except for a few shreds of cotton candy clouds.

From Washington Post

Maybe not always the cotton candy ones, but stories that need to be told that maybe haven’t been heard.

From Ozy

The Capital Weather Gang has been retweeting photos of the pink and purple cotton candy sunrise Wednesday morning.

From Washington Post

There was even a cotton candy machine that children gather around.

From The Daily Beast

By then, spectators were heading for the cotton-candy stand, applauding the ride.

From The Daily Beast

Sometimes it's cotton-candy-content, but sometimes it's real meat.

From The Daily Beast

Reading it is the literary equivalent of having cotton candy turn to ashes in your mouth.

From The Daily Beast

Chocolate melts, cotton candy disintegrates, graham-cracker walls separate, and gingerbread roofs eventually cave in.

From The Daily Beast

I feel a funny feeling in my stomach, like maybe it is full of supersuds or something, and my mouth is dry like cotton candy.

From Project Gutenberg