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gumdrop

gumdrop

11 1.7
A small soft candy covered in sugar and often fruit flavored
  • noun
  • /ˈɡʌmˌdrɒp/
  • US
translation icon : gomita
  • At the candy store, I picked a mix of gumdrops in different fruity flavors.
  • goody gumdrops
  • bag of gumdrops
  • small gumdrop

First question, which of the following desserts was not the name of a version of Android Nougat, Gumdrop or honeycomb?

Examples

  • Kazan, I'll give ya a whole box of gumdrops for each answer.

  • Bob rewarded them with lime and cherry gumdrops, and meringues with silver icing piped around the sides.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Here's the Christmas tree with a gumdrop as a star.

  • It's a bag of gumdrops.

  • September brought pencil-shaped cookies with gumdrop erasers.

    Blog text (7)
  • There's even a jar of gumdrops on the wall because, in an emergency, it will be necessary to get a fast sugar fix into the blood.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • This group of school students has just succeeded in building fragile towers from nothing but spaghetti stick beams and gumdrop fasteners.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Inside the bag would be the dessert his mother had packed for him that morning: a Twinkie, a cupcake, and sometimes a baggie full of gumdrops or jellybeans.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • The children were thrilled to receive colorful gumdrops as a treat during the birthday party.

  • She added a few gumdrops to the dessert as a sweet and colorful topping.

Synonyms

gummy
vsgumdrop
32 1.0

A small chewy sweet candy often shaped like a bear

is jellied and covered with sugar crystals rather than plain gelatin sweets
gummy treat
vsgumdrop
2.2

A soft, chewy candy that tastes like fruit

is jellied candy coated in sugar crystals rather than plain chewy gelatin

How Chewy

taffy
  • US
16 4.2
gumdrop
  • US
11 1.7
jellybean
9 1.0
cotton candy
  • US
25 1.0
hard candy
  • US
7 1.0

Surface Forms

gumdrop singular
gumdrops plural

Morphology

gumdrop = gum + drop (transparent) = gum + drop

The compound directly denotes a small 'drop' made of gum-like (gelatinous/resinous) material, so its meaning is compositionally clear.

Etymology

Gumdrop is made of two words, gum and drop, where gum means a sticky substance, like 'chewing gum', and drop means a small 'drop' or piece. So a gumdrop is a little, soft, sticky candy, a tiny 'drop' of sweet gum.