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单词 smarties
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Smartiesn.

Brit. /ˈsmɑːtɪz/, U.S. /ˈsmɑrdiz/
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: smarty n.
Etymology: Apparently < the plural of smarty n.
A proprietary name for: sugar-coated milk chocolate buttons, sold in a variety of bright colours, typically in packets or cardboard tubes. Also in singular: a sweet of this type.This sense is not in use in the United States, where Smarties is a proprietary name for a type of hard sugar sweet.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > chocolate
jessamy-chocolate1697
milk chocolate1723
plain chocolate1737
chocolate drop1764
chocolate cream1851
chocolate1852
chocolate liqueur1864
chocolate button1865
choc1874
chocolate bar1875
choccy1885
langue de chat1897
black chocolate1902
soft centre1902
truffle1902
liqueur chocolate1904
bar1906
bark1910
chocolate coin1910
white chocolate1917
dark chocolate1930
Mars bar1932
Smarties1939
nutty1947
liqueur1965
1939 Trade Marks Jrnl. 8 Nov. 1496/1 Smarties..chocolate confectionery.
1954 G. Greene in Twenty-one Stories 221 ‘I got some chocolates,’ Mr Thomas said... He handed over three packets of Smarties.
1961 Times 11 Apr. 9 (advt.) Its gay tubes of Smarties and Fruit Gums can be found in the pockets of millions of contented citizens.
1985 J. R. Beech Learning to Read iii. 35 The child may be given a sweet (e.g. a Smartie) at various stages.
2001 C. Hobson Black Earth City (2002) x. 130 Where he went I followed with the packet of Smarties my father had left me, doling them out into mittened palms.

Phrases

like Smarties: (esp. with reference to the consumption of pills) voraciously; in great numbers or very quickly.
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1967 Times 20 July 3/1 A handful of pills, which they ate ‘just like Smarties’.
1978 R. Westall Devil on Road x. 62 She'd..knocked the tin of vitamin-pills over one night and started scoffing them like Smarties.
1985 Mail on Sunday 3 Nov. 27/2 The Mills and Boon novels they swallow like Smarties.
2003 Marie Claire Dec. 175/2 He was popping Es like Smarties.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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