Christmas words: Sugar plum (opens in new tab)

The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is my only interaction with sugar plums. I had no real idea until I wrote this post that it was a hard sugar candy rather than.. well a plum in sugar. The etymology given in the Oxford English Dictionary is from plum, the fruit, but this isn’t a common enough use to have a specific sense. Image: Sugar Plum via Wikipedia Sugar plums are new to me but definitely not new, they’ve been a recorded treat for at least 600 years in English. At Superlinguo, I celebrat...