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fairy floss

noun

Etymology

From fairy + floss.

  1. derived from *fleus✻
  2. inherited from *flos✻
  3. derived from *plewk-✻ — “hair, fibres, tuft”
  4. derived from *flukkô✻ — “down, piece of wool, flock”
  5. derived from *flokkō✻ — “down, wool, flock”
  6. derived from floccus — “piece of wool”
  7. derived from flosche — “down, velvet”
  8. borrowed from floche
  9. compounded as fairy floss — “fairy + floss”

Definitions

  1. Heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick.

    • Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.
    • The girls were already bagging fairy floss, and stockpiling it as fast as they could.
    • Sophie hands an impatient child a stick of fairy floss and sees Grace walk by, pushing the baby in his stroller.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fairy floss. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA