barley-sugar

barley sugar

noun
a brittle, amber-colored, transparent candy, formerly boiled in a decoction of barley, consisting of sugar, cream of tartar, and orange or lemon juice, usually twisted into strips or molded into a variety of shapes.
Also called barley candy.


Origin:
1705–15
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Barley-sugar is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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barley-sugar

noun
a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar 
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