attrib., as in aniseed-tree, aniseed-water. aniseed ball n. a round, hard sweet flavoured with aniseed.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > globular sweet (8) aniseed ball1700 attrib., as in aniseed-tree, aniseed-water. aniseed ball n. a round, hard sweet flavoured with aniseed. bull's-eye1825 A sweetmeat so called from its globular shape. brandy-ball1849 a kind of sweet. blackball1851 English regional. A hard black (or black and white) sweet. Also: (New Zealand) a mint humbug. dump1869 A term familiarly applied to various objects of ‘dumpy’ shape. A globular sweetmeat, a ‘bull's-eye’. cake ball1896 an item of confectionery made by forming a mixture of cake crumbs and icing into a sphere, which is then coated in icing, chocolate, or other… gobstopper1906 A large, hard, spherical sweet, now typically consisting of a number of layers, each of which dissolves to reveal a different colour. gulab jamun1917 A South Asian sweet made from milk-solids formed into balls, deep-fried, and soaked in a sugar syrup that is typically flavoured with cardamom and… |
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