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View synonyms for cotton candy

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cotton candy1

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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