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.
lollipop. British Informal. a piece of candy, especially hard candy. a treat.
A little packaged good for your candy craving would be called “sweets” or “sweeties” in Britain.
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.
'Lollies' are what we call candy, although the term is more specifically used for the gelatinous kind, not chocolate, cakes etc.
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.
Lolly, in Australian and New Zealand English, a piece of what is called candy in American English or sweets in British English.
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.
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.
In Australia, "biscuits" are what Americans call "cookies," and these traditional treats date back to World War I. It's said that wives and mothers of soldiers in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps—abbreviated to "Anzac"—baked these treats to send to their men overseas.
A Flump is a British sweet made of marshmallow.
American do have things called biscuits too, but they are something completely different. These are the crumbly cakes that British people call scones, which you eat with butter, jam, sometimes clotted cream and always a cup of tea.
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'Lolly' is a New Zealand word for confectionary - British people use 'sweet' and Americans 'candy'.
In Britain, a lolly is essentially a sweet (or candy in the US) on a stick. It is short for lollipop. 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.
The very first lesson revolves around the term 'candy' itself. It is seldom used. Instead the term 'sweets' is preferred in Ireland, referring to everything from hard candy to jellies to chocolate bars.
but a chilly bin of course is an eski. Oh, that's Australian slang. Both of those names, chilly bin and eski, mean ice chest.
Zooper Dooper = Popsicle.
Of course, here in NZ an “ice block” is a frozen confection on a stick. In the US, it is usually called a “Popsicle”.
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.
British English: lolly /ˈlɒlɪ/ NOUN. A lolly is a sweet consisting of a hard disc or ball of a sugary substance on the end of a stick. American English: lollipop /ˈlɒlipɒp/