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cotton candy

noun

Etymology

From cotton + candy; from being a candy appearing like a mass of cotton balls or cotton batting.

  1. derived from *kaṇṭu✻
  2. derived from खण्ड — “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”
  3. derived from کند
  4. derived from قَنْد — “rock candy”
  5. derived from سُكَّر قَنْدِي
  6. derived from sucre candi
  7. derived from sugre candy
  8. compounded as cotton candy — “cotton + candy”

Definitions

  1. Melted sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.

  2. The ship of characters Kim and Aubrey from the videogame Omori.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA