nougat bar
- noun
- /ˈnuːɡɑːt bɑːr/
:
barrita de turrón
- For dessert, she served a delicious nougat bar topped with caramel and sea salt.
- caramel nougat bar
- peanut nougat bar
Examples
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I enjoyed a crunchy nougat bar filled with nuts and coated in chocolate.
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And a cherry and almond nougat bar.
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He bought a nougat bar from the candy store to satisfy his sweet tooth.
Synonyms
71
1.0
A sweet made of chocolate or sugar that you eat as a snack
10
4.8
A chewy sweet made from sugar or honey and nuts
How Chewy
25
1.0
- US
16
4.2
37
1.3
25
1.0
- US
7
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a bar-shaped candy made of nougat' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'nougat' (a chewy confection) with 'bar' (a long solid piece or candy bar). This noun–noun compounding follows a common English composition pattern (and similar patterns exist in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Nougat bar comes from the simple picture of a piece of nougat, a chewy sweet often with nuts, shaped like a long bar and sometimes covered in chocolate, so it means 'a bar-shaped candy made of nougat'.