gumdrop
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- noun
- /ˈɡʌmˌdrɒp/
- US
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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?
- First question, which of the following desserts was not the name of a version of Android Nougat, Gumdrop or honeycomb?
Examples
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Kazan, I'll give ya a whole box of gumdrops for each answer.
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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.
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It's a bag of gumdrops.
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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.
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She added a few gumdrops to the dessert as a sweet and colorful topping.
Synonyms
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A small chewy sweet candy often shaped like a bear
A soft, chewy candy that tastes like fruit
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Morphology
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.