sugar-plum

See also: sugarplum and sugar plum

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sugar-plum (plural sugar-plums)

  1. A round or oval sweet/piece of candy made of boiled sugar.
  2. (dated) A piece of flattery.
  3. Term of endearment: sweetheart, darling.
  4. Uapaca kirkiana, an southern African fruit tree.
  5. The fruit of this tree.
  6. The prune plum.

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sugar-plum (third-person singular simple present sugar-plums, present participle sugar-plumming, simple past and past participle sugar-plummed)

  1. (intransitive, colloquial, idiomatic): to daydream
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