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.
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.
Aussie Word of the Week
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. It comes from the older British word 'lollipop' which referred to confectionary but came to have a narrower meaning in Britain of a sweet on a stick or an ice block ('ice lolly').
A lollipop is a type of sugar candy usually consisting of hard candy mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking. Different informal terms are used in different places, including lolly, sucker, sticky-pop, etc. Lollipops are available in many flavors and shapes.
Another word for a lollipop is a sucker due to the way we enjoy the sugary treat. It may not be a surprise to know that the emoji is also sometimes used to convey a sexual message, perhaps evoking oral sex or other innuendos.
Blow Pops Minis: A gum-filled lollipop without a stick.
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.
Traditional IPA: ˈlɒlɪpɒp. 3 syllables: "LOL" + "i" + "pop"
The shoe known in Australia as a "thong" is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world. Worn with small variations across Egypt, Rome, Greece, sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Korea, Japan and some Latin American cultures, the shoe was designed to protect the sole while keeping the top of the foot cool.
The English instead refer to regular lollies as “sweets” or “sweeties”, while they're known as “candy” Stateside.
That being said, let's start with something most of us will probably have sitting in the fridge or pantry: ketchup. Ketchup is underrated. We call it tomato sauce in Australia. Or just “sauce”.
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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.
Fantales. Though Fantales are relatively simple treats – chocolate cubes filled with gooey caramel – they're apparently the most iconic Australian lolly of all time.
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. In other words, the correct translation for “Süßigkeiten” in Australia is “lollies”.
'Lollies' are what we call candy, although the term is more specifically used for the gelatinous kind, not chocolate, cakes etc.
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."
Foods of England - Lollipops or Lollypops or Lolly. Any type of sweet or water-ice which is supplied on a stick. 'Lolly' is a very old sailor's word for soft sea-ice, and the term 'lollipop' for a type of sugar sweet is known at least since the mid 18th Century (OED).
An ice pop is also referred to as a popsicle in Canada and the United States, flash in Algeria, paleta in Mexico, the Southwestern United States and parts of Latin America, ice lolly in the United Kingdom (the term ice pop refers to a freezie in the United Kingdom), Ireland and the Commonwealth, ice lol as a colloquial ...
The stick itself is hollow in order to keep excitable kids (and adults) from accidentally choking if the stick is swallowed.
Chupa Chups (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃupa ˈtʃups]) is a Spanish brand of lollipop and other confectionery sold in over 150 countries around the world.
Most swallowed foreign bodies are spontaneously excreted in the feces without intervention. Fewer than 1% of ingested foreign bodies lead to bleeding, obstruction or perforation of the gastrointestinal tract, mandating surgical intervention.