"sugar-plum" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sugar-plum.wav Forms: sugar-plums [plural], sugar plum [alternative], sugarplum [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sugar-plum (plural sugar-plums)
  1. A round or oval sweet/piece of candy made of boiled sugar.
    Sense id: en-sugar-plum-en-noun-BIcCFr0A
  2. (dated) A piece of flattery. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-sugar-plum-en-noun-Kb8DhliJ
  3. Term of endearment: sweetheart, darling.
    Sense id: en-sugar-plum-en-noun-icegXHyY
  4. Uapaca kirkiana, an southern African fruit tree.
    Sense id: en-sugar-plum-en-noun-2gxpP-6d
  5. The fruit of this tree.
    Sense id: en-sugar-plum-en-noun-XdpJAk1Z
  6. The prune plum. Categories (topical): Sweets Categories (lifeform): Fruits, Malpighiales order plants
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  7. (intransitive, colloquial, idiomatic): to daydream Tags: colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-sugar-plum-en-noun-l5H2ElOZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: boiled sweet [UK] Derived forms: sugar-plum chalk, the Sugar Plum Fairy, sugar-plum land Coordinate_terms: comfit

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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