"rocky road" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: rocky roads [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} rocky road (countable and uncountable, plural rocky roads)
  1. Any of several forms of candy containing lumps of chocolate, marshmallows and nuts. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-rocky_road-en-noun-sDwE63zK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 51 2 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 52 45 3 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 56 42 2
  2. A variety of chocolate ice cream with marshmallows and almonds. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Ice cream
    Sense id: en-rocky_road-en-noun-PTEmZHDM Disambiguation of Ice cream: 6 93 1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 51 2 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 52 45 3
  3. (figurative) A rough time, course etc. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable
    Sense id: en-rocky_road-en-noun-qbO7WER6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (biscuit): rocky road [masculine] (Dutch), rocky road [masculine] (French), route rocheuse [feminine, rare] (French), Rocky road (German), ロッキー・ロード (Rokkī Rōdo) (Japanese), ロッキーロード (Rokkīrōdo) (Japanese)
Disambiguation of 'biscuit': 0 0 0

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for rocky road meaning in All languages combined (3.5kB)

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