🇬🇧 Sugarplum meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A sugarplum is a small, round sweet treat that people often ate at Christmas long ago. It can be a hard candy or a little ball made from sugar, dried fruit, nuts, and spices. Sugarplums were special holiday candies in older times, and they are famous from Christmas stories and poems.

My brother said he didn’t like sugarplums, then accidentally ate six while ‘checking the flavor.’

I hid a sugarplum in my pocket, forgot about it, and now my pants smell like Christmas.

I promised to share my sugarplums, but my definition of ‘share’ was letting everyone watch me eat them.

Mom said, ‘Don’t eat too many sugarplums,’ so I cleverly ate exactly ‘too many minus one.’

I put a sugarplum in my mouth and suddenly Christmas carols started playing in my brain.

At the market, Anna opened a small tin and found sugarplum after sugarplum, shiny and round. She held a sugarplum to her nose and smelled warm spice and sugar. She gave a sugarplum to an old man and kept a sugarplum for herself. He smiled, they tasted sweetness, and laughter filled the square.

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