cotton candy

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   a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature

   Synonymsspun sugarcandyfloss

   Broadercandy

Questions about cotton candy

What does cotton candy mean?

cotton candy means "a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature".

What is another word for cotton candy?

Close synonyms include spun sugar, candyfloss. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cotton candy a common word?

cotton candy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.