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- Japanese · calque ofアイスキャンディー
- English todayice candy
Calque of Japanese アイスキャンディー (aisukyandī, literally “ice candy”), a Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from ice + candy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Synonym of freeze pop, frozen fruit juice or flavored ice in a tube. Full definition →
Calque of Japanese アイスキャンディー (aisukyandī, literally “ice candy”), a Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from ice + candy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.