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nutball

nutball

1 6.0
A small round sweet made with nuts and sugar or chocolate
  • noun
  • /ˈnʌtˌbɔl/
translation icon : trufa de nueces
  • After dinner, he enjoyed a chocolate-covered nutball with his coffee.

Examples

  • I bought a nutball from the bakery.

  • These nutballs are delicious!

  • She made a batch of nutballs for the holiday party, using almonds and honey.

  • The bakery displayed several varieties of nutball in the front window.

  • For dessert, she served delicious nutballs made with chocolate and almonds.

  • He brought a box of homemade nutballs to the party, and they quickly disappeared.

  • At the bakery, I found a variety of nutballs coated in sugary syrup.

Synonyms

candy
vsnutball
  • US
863 1.0

A small sweet made from sugar, often with chocolate or nuts

is the smaller round confection held together with sugar or chocolate
nut bar
vsnutball
1 2.5

A sweet snack of nuts and sugar on a thin baked base cut into bars

is round and formed without a pastry base rather than cut
nutcake
vsnutball
1 2.1

A cake made with nuts

is a small hand-sized sweet bound by sugar or chocolate not baked

How Nutty

praline
7 5.0
nutball
1 6.0
truffle
10 4.3
bonbon
17 3.8

Surface Forms

nutball singular
nutballs plural

Morphology

nutball = nut + ball (transparent) = nut + ball

A straightforward compound meaning a small round confection made of nuts; learners who know 'nut' and 'ball' can readily infer this sense.

Etymology

Nutball is simply made from nut and ball, meaning a small 'round' sweet made of nuts and sugar or chocolate, like a tiny snowball for dessert. So, a nutball is a little round sweet made with nuts.