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fairy floss en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From fairy + floss. First attested in the 1850s.

Meanings

  1. (Australia, uncountable) Synonym of cotton candy.
    • Sergeant Snottle pulled out from under his long black chest plate a piece of pink and blue fairy floss. 2011, Jacqueline Delaney, Professor Yish Kabibble in the Curse of the Scruttles, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 22:
    • Sophie hands an impatient child a stick of fairy floss and sees Grace walk by, pushing the baby in his stroller. 2005, Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary, →ISBN, page 282:
    • Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland. 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74:
    • The girls were already bagging fairy floss, and stockpiling it as fast as they could. 2009, Rex Ellis, “Cocklebiddy, the Sydney Show and Kybo Station: Go with the Flow” (chapter 3), in Go with the Flow, Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, →ISBN, page 25:

Forms

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Deriveds

Persian fairy floss

Synonyms

cotton candy