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Lollipop
Definitions
- 1 An item of confectionery consisting of a piece of candy or sweet attached to a stick.
- 2 hard candy on a stick wordnet
- 3 Something having the shape of a lollipop: a linear stem connected to a round body.
"The gene III proteins appear as five lollipops protruding from the end of the phage, and these “balls” can be removed by treatment of the phage with subtilisin, rendering the phage noninfectious."
- 4 ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick wordnet
- 5 A sign on a stick held in front of the vehicle during a pit stop.
- 1 To prune the lower branches of a tree or other plant so that new growth appears only at the top, where more light is received.
Etymology
By surface analysis, loll (“laze, hang loose”) + y + pop (“shot, try, burst, enter”); likely through lolly (“head, tongue”). Attested from 1784. Compare lollygag and lollypoop. An unlikely derivation is from Romani loli (“red”) + phabaj (“apple”); candy apples are often red and placed on a stick to keep the person's hands dry, similar to lollipops. However candy apples were not well-known until a century after the first known use of the word lollipop, and the original lollipop was likely a small item like modern penny candy.
By surface analysis, loll (“laze, hang loose”) + y + pop (“shot, try, burst, enter”); likely through lolly (“head, tongue”). Attested from 1784. Compare lollygag and lollypoop. An unlikely derivation is from Romani loli (“red”) + phabaj (“apple”); candy apples are often red and placed on a stick to keep the person's hands dry, similar to lollipops. However candy apples were not well-known until a century after the first known use of the word lollipop, and the original lollipop was likely a small item like modern penny candy.
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