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Does ‘sugarplum’ have the meaning of ‘honey’ or ‘sweetie’? Both OED and Wikipedia define ‘sugarplum’ only as ‘a small round sweet of flavored boiled sugar,’ or ‘a piece of dragée candy that is made of dried fruits and shaped in a small round or oval shape No other meaning Does ‘sugarplum’ have an extended meaning like ‘honey’ or ‘sweetie' as an addressing word?
meaning - Origin of Plumb to mean absolutely - English Language . . . Meaning "something desirable" is first recorded 1780, probably in ref to the sugar-rich bits of a plum pudding, etc Some of the OED references seem to be examples of plum being used to mean "something desirable" rather than misspellings of plumb meaning "completely "
Is whisky wine? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange One reason your Chinese friend might be confused is an alcoholic drink popular in Korea, Japan, and China which is called plum wine in English This “wine” is basically alcohol infused with fruit flavor and begins with already distilled spirits The closest Western equivalent would be fruit brandy, though the process is different
Rounded, heaping and other types of teaspoon (fuls)? Let's say you're measuring a teaspoon of something granular, like flour, coffee or sugar 1 tsp (or 1 level tsp) means that the top of what you're measuring is flat; no sugar goes above the top of the spoon 1 rounded tsp means you scoop a spoonful of sugar, and let it form a small pile above the top of the spoon
Origins of up the duff - English Language Usage Stack Exchange When he reached the word dough he said to himself, " If r-o-u-g-h spells luff, d-o-u-g-h spells duff " Well, this is probably folk etymology, but this sailors' cake is still known as plum duff in the antipodes today, and it's one of many examples of dough -> duff in 19th century Australia
Thousand thousands? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange You don't use the 's' on numbers in phrases such as 'thirty thousand dollars' because the number here is acting as an adjective Adjectives in English don't take plurals Even if you omit the 'dollars' it is understood that 'dollars' whether it is spoken or inferred is the noun When you say thousands of dollars you are no longer using 'thousands' as an adjective It is now a noun Think of it
When do British people use the word cookie? 7 In the UK a cookie is a particular type of biscuit with a high butter and sugar content so the dough melts during cooking giving a crispy edge with a softer centre Biscuit covers a wide range of recipes from sweet, semi-sweet, to savoury e g "biscuit for cheese" with a wide range a textures, shape thickness
Word for a person that is being taken advantage of financially . . . I don't mind whether there are positive or negative connotations to the word - "sugar daddy" is a good American example but not suitable for my (British Scottish) context To me this is a good example because it explicitly implies the ongoing leeching relationship, and is not simply an attribute of the person
Best words to describe food expenses - English Language Usage Stack . . . The original question asks about the term for a food only expense not called "food expense" which seems closer to sustenance Beer and candy would be viable for sustenance, sugar to keep up energy levels and a beer if the engineer stays the night at the customer site 10 beers would not be acceptable as that would be excessive consumption
Boo as a term of endearment - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Here's an instance of "Boo Boo" as a pet name or term of endearment from The Martin Marauder and the Franklin Allens: A Wartime Love Story, published in 1980 but presented in the form of letters written in the early 1940s—long before Yogi and Boo-Boo Bear The Hathi Trust edition of the book refers to the contents as having been "collected" by three people—so it may really by from the