Now that all seems fairly straight-forward, until we learn that lolly is actually the Australian word for sweets – i.e. British lollies but without the sticks.
Lolly, a short form of lollipop (a kind of confectionery on a stick) Lolly, in Australian and New Zealand English, a piece of what is called candy in American English or sweets in British English.
Why do Australians call sweets “lollies”, even when they have no sticks? According to British English from A to Zed by Norman Schur (Harper, 1991) “lolly” derives onomatopoetically for the mouth sounds associated with sucking or licking. The word “lollipop” came later.
We call them lollies, but a lolly in England would only mean a lollipop on a stick. The English instead refer to regular lollies as “sweets” or “sweeties”, while they're known as “candy” Stateside.
/ (ˈlɒlɪ) / noun plural -lies. an informal word for lollipop. British short for ice lolly. British, Australian and NZ a slang word for money.
Where: While Lollipop is the technical term for the hard candy on a stick, some people in the Midwest and South prefer to call it a "sucker."
It should be noted that in British English and many other languages, eggplants are called aubergines or similar. Australian and American English use eggplant, though aubergine is seeing increased use in Australia.
'Lolly' is a New Zealand word for confectionary - British people use 'sweet' and Americans 'candy'.
In the U.K., a lolly is short for lollipop, a word derived from lolly, meaning tongue in an old British dialect and the word pop, which means all sweet-flavored things.
Definition. In Australia, chips can refer to 'hot' chips; fried strips of potato. Chips also refer to what are known in other countries as crisps.
cotton candy has different names around the world in England it's called candy floss. In Australia and Finland it's called fairy floss.
lollipop; lolly; sucker; all-day sucker; ice lolly; popsicle.
noun Australian Slang. a sweet soft drink, especially one brightly colored.
Get familiar with some of the most common phrases before you travel: Chilly bin – the Kiwi word for Esky.
lolly {noun}
Kohle {f} [slg.]
Tablet (taiblet in Scots) is a medium-hard, sugary confection from Scotland. Tablet is usually made from sugar, condensed milk, and butter, which is boiled to a soft-ball stage and allowed to crystallise.
Chook comes from British dialect chuck(y) 'a chicken; a fowl' which is a variant of chick. Chook is the common term for the live bird, although chook raffles, held in Australian clubs and pubs, have ready-to-cook chooks as prizes.
Avo: this is what we call an avocado. This is a good one to know, because smashed avo (mashed avocado on toast) is very popular in Australian cafes.
Konpeitō is usually 5 to 10 mm (0.20 to 0.39 in) in diameter and is produced by repeatedly coating a sugar syrup over a core consisting of a grain of coarse sugar.
noun. British, informal. : a female crossing guard who carries a lollipop sign (see lollipop sense 3) She had been ever-present at St Mary's Primary School over the past 11 years, serving as a teaching assistant and dinner lady as well as a lollipop lady. James Franklin, Daily Echo, 3 Dec.
In Australia and the United Kingdom, a school crossing supervisor or school crossing patrol officer is commonly known as a lollipop man or lollipop lady, because of the modified circular stop sign they carry, which resembles a large lollipop.
A lolly is a sweet or piece of confectionery. Particular to Australia and New Zealand, lolly has been part of Aussie slang since the 1850s.