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Very sweet-natured or saccharine; harmless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- c. 1800, Anne Isabella Byron, quoted in Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's wife I shall write to you tomorrow on a subject which I have not now time to discuss. This I declare now because I like to excite your curiosity, and to delay gratifying it. I am a sweet chicken ! ! ! You ought to think me the most barley-sugar daughter in the creation!
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Twisted helically.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: barley candy
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Broader terms: hard candy
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