In Britain, the correct translation is “sweets”. This then led onto a discussion about lollies.
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.
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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. A conversation lolly is a sugary lolly with a conversational, often romantic, sentiment impressed into it.
'Lolly' is a New Zealand word for confectionary - British people use 'sweet' and Americans 'candy'. Australians also use lolly.
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.
Different parts of Australia use either ice block or icy pole (which is a brand name), and New Zealand uses ice block. In the Philippines the term ice drop is used with coconut flavor ice pops being called ice bukos. India uses the terms ice gola and ice candy.
The name freezie itself is most commonly used in Canada. Other regional names include freeze pop, freezer pop, popsicle and Icee in the United States, ice pole and ice pop in the United Kingdom, icy pole in Australia, sip up and Pepsi ice in India, penna-cool in Trinidad , and ice candy in the Philippines.
'Lollies' are what we call candy, although the term is more specifically used for the gelatinous kind, not chocolate, cakes etc.
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.
lolly = money. More popular in the 1960s than today. Precise origin unknown. Possibly rhyming slang linking lollipop to copper.
British informal. an ice cream or water ice on a stick. Also called: lolly.
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.
poppet in British English
(ˈpɒpɪt ) noun. 1. a term of affection for a small child or sweetheart.
Candy, also called sweets (British English) or lollies (Australian English, New Zealand English), is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy.
You might know them as popsicles. Or maybe even ice blocks. But, in Britain, they're called ice lollies. And they are the only way to get through a British heatwave.
Zooper Dooper = Popsicle.
While the answers to shopping trolley, bread rolls and chips weren't particularly controversial, Americans just couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that Aussies refer to icy poles as Zooper Doopers.
Esky is a brand of portable coolers, originally Australian, derived from the word "Eskimo". The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin".
'Snot Block'. Believe it or not but the Aussie slang term for a vanilla slice has made it along with six thousand new words and phrases, into the second edition of the Australian National Dictionary, released today.
Contributor's comments: In Melbourne, the term "dishlickers" is more common. It refers more specifically to greyhounds and people involved in the greyhound racing industry, for example, "They are going to cancel next week's dogs. The dishlickers won't be happy."
noun Slang. a person who often uses obscene, filthy, or abusive language. a habit of using such language:His pottymouth has gotten him into trouble.
The term "raspberry" derives from the Cockney rhyming slang "raspberry tart" for "fart" (that is, "blowing a fart").