spun sugar

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

   Synonymscotton candycandyfloss

   Broadercandy

Questions about spun sugar

What does spun sugar mean?

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

What is another word for spun sugar?

Close synonyms include cotton candy, 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 spun sugar a common word?

spun sugar 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.