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🍬 A chewy candy 🍒 A small fruit
jujube

jujube

1 8.6
A soft chewy candy like a small gummy, sometimes used to soothe a sore throat
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒuːdʒuːb/
  • US
translation icon : jujube
  • After a long day, I enjoy relaxing with a bag of jujubes while watching my favorite movie.

Examples

  • The jujubes and the chestnuts.

    The Wedding Banquet (2025)

  • Hey, wanna go get some jujubes with me?

    May (2003)

  • I'm going to the drugstore to get some jujubes.

    Mega Scorpions (2003)

  • Qantas, jujubes, salcido, Ford Fairlane.

    The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

  • Qantas, jujubes, salcido, Ford Fairlane.

    The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

  • And a bunch of trippers they were, too—children with jujubes, women carrying big bags or sniveling tots, men sipping from cups.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The doctor recommended jujubes to help soothe my sore throat and taste good at the same time.

  • At the carnival, the children eagerly reached for jujubes from the candy vendor.

Synonyms

gummy
vsjujube
1 1.9

Soft and easy to chew like a candy

is a specific fruit flavored jellied candy sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat

Compounds

Chinese jujube
9.3

A dark red fruit like a plum with sweet flesh often eaten fresh or dried

jujube bush
9.0

A small spiny tree that produces sweet red fruits you can eat

How Chewy

taffy
  • US
16 4.2
caramel
37 1.3
jujube
  • US
1 8.6
marshmallow
106 1.0
hard candy
  • US
7 1.0

Surface Forms

jujube singular
jujubes plural

Etymology

Jujube comes from an old name ziziphus for an Asian fruit used in Arabic and Persian. Early sweets were made from this fruit or flavoured like it, so a chewy candy took the fruit's name and that's why jujube can mean a jelly candy often used like a cough drop.