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Definition: Lollipop |
LollipopNoun1. Ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick; "in England a popsicle is called an ice lolly". 2. Hard candy on a stick. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lollipop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Etymology: Lollipop \Lol"li*pop\, noun. [Perhaps from Prov. English loll to soothe pope mixed liquor.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A lump of candy on the end of a stick that may be inserted in and removed from the mouth. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: LollipopSynonyms: all-day sucker (n), ice lolly (n), lolly (n), popsicle (n), sucker (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sweetness | Sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai, sorghum, taffy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop. (Some Like It Hot; writing credit: Robert Thoeren; M. Logan) I'm the magical man from Happyland, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I brought you a lollipop. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Lyrics | Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop (Around the Way Girl; performing artist: L.L. Cool J) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lollipop Palace (1973) The Lollipop Cover (1965) Lollipop (1999) | |
Song Titles | My Boy Lollipop (performing artist: Little Millie Small) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Lollipop" by Michael Parker. |  | Good ship lollipop. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Lollipop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.83% of the time. "Lollipop" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.83% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lollipop": lollipop-shaped, lollipop-sucking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "lollipop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjel sheqeri (rock). (various references) | |
Arabic | مصاصة (pacifier), قطعة سكريات على عود, عنبر تفاحة مسكرة على عصا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шекерче, захаросан плод. (various references) | |
Chinese | '糖 (sucker). (various references) | |
Czech | lízátko (nicy, sucker). (various references) | |
Danish | slikpind. (various references) | |
Dutch | lolly. (various references) | |
Farsi | خروسک (Cockerel), اب نبات چوبی . (various references) | |
Finnish | tikkukaramelli. (various references) | |
French | sucette. (various references) | |
German | lutscher (lolly, sucker). (various references) | |
Greek | γλυφιτζούρι, γλειφιντζούρι, γλειφιτζούρι (lolly), γλεφιτζούρι, ζαχαρωτό με ξύλινην λαβήν. (various references) | |
Hebrew | סוכרי" על מקל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyalóka (sucker). (various references) | |
Italian | lecca-lecca (lolly), lecca lecca, succio. (various references) | |
Manx | maidjey shugyr, maidjey millish (liquorice stick). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ollipoplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pirulito, chupa-chupa. (various references) | |
Romanian | candel de bãţ. (various references) | |
Russian | леденец (barley sugar, candy, nicy, sugar candy, sugarplum). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lizalica, lilihip. (various references) | |
Spanish | chupete (dummy, pacifier). (various references) | |
Swedish | slickepinne (lolipop, lolly, sucker). (various references) | |
Thai | อมยิ้ม (lollypop). (various references) | |
Turkish | lolipop (lolly, rock, sucker), saplı şeker, öğrencilerin karşıya geçtiğini belirten işaret. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | солодощі (candy), льодяник на паличці (sucker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lollipop": lollipops. (additional references) | |
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"Lollipop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Liliboy, lollilop. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "lollipop" (pronounced 'Lol"li*pop'): maypop. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-l-l-o-o-p-p" | |
-2 letters: lollop. | |
-3 letters: polio. | |
-4 letters: loll, loop, olio, pill, plop, poll, polo, pool, poop. | |
-5 letters: ill, lip, loo, lop, oil, pip, poi, pol, pop. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-l-l-o-o-p-p" | |
+1 letter: lollipops. | |
+5 letters: allopolyploid. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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