barley sugar

barley sugar

See also: barley-sugar

English

Noun

barley sugar (countable and uncountable, plural barley sugars)

1. A traditional British boiled sweet, yellow or orange in colour, with an extract of barley added as flavouring.

Translations

sweet

Dutch: zuurstok (nl) Esperanto: hordeosukeraĵo French: sucre d’orge (fr) m

Manx: shugyr oarn m Tamil: மிட்டாய் (ta) (miṭṭāy)

Adjective

barley sugar (comparative more barley sugar, superlative most barley sugar)

1. Alternative form of barley-sugar

Synonyms

• (helically twisted): Solomonic