Meanings
cotton candy1
plural cotton candies · alternative cotton-candy
- CanadaUSuncountableusuallyA confectionery made by spinning melted sugar into thin threads collected into a mass.
Synonyms: candy floss, fairy floss
Cotton Candy2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA confectionery made by spinning melted sugar into thin threads collected into a mass.
proper nounThe ship of characters Kim and Aubrey from the videogame Omori.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
cotton candy · noun
From cotton + candy. First attested in the 1880s. Referring to its appearance to a mass of cotton balls.
Full word history & related roots →Cotton Candy · proper noun
From the appearance of Aubrey's hair and the fact that Kim loves candy.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans spookasem
- spookasemspun sugar confectionery
Arabic غَزْل اَلْبَنَات
- غَزْل اَلْبَنَات (ḡazl al-banāt)spun sugar confectionery
Basque azukrezko kotoi
- azukrezko kotoispun sugar confectionery
Bengali হাওয়াই মিঠাই, হাওয়াই মিষ্টি
- হাওয়াই মিঠাই (haōẇai miṭhai)spun sugar confectionery
- হাওয়াই মিষ্টি (haōẇai miśṭi)spun sugar confectionery
Bulgarian захарен памук
- захарен памук (zaharen pamuk)spun sugar confectionery
Catalan cotó fluix de sucre, cotó-en-pèl dolç
- cotó fluix de sucrespun sugar confectionery
- cotó-en-pèl dolçspun sugar confectionery
Chinese Cantonese 棉花糖
- 棉花糖spun sugar confectionery
Chinese Mandarin 棉花糖
- 棉花糖 (miánhuātáng)spun sugar confectionery
Czech cukrová vata
- cukrová vataspun sugar confectionery
Danish candyfloss
- candyflossspun sugar confectionery
Dutch suikerspin
- suikerspinspun sugar confectionery
Esperanto sukerŝpinaĵo
- sukerŝpinaĵospun sugar confectionery
Estonian suhkruvatt
- suhkruvattspun sugar confectionery
Finnish hattara
- hattaraspun sugar confectionery
French barbe à papa
- barbe à papaspun sugar confectionery
German Zuckerwatte
- Zuckerwattespun sugar confectionery
Greek μαλλί της γριάς
- μαλλί της γριάς (mallí tis griás)spun sugar confectionery
Hebrew שערות סבתא, צמר גפן מתוק
- שערות סבתא (sa'arót sávta)spun sugar confectionery
- צמר גפן מתוק (tsémer géfen matók)spun sugar confectionery
Hindi बुड्ढी के बाल
- बुड्ढी के बाल (buḍḍhī ke bāl)spun sugar confectionery
Hungarian vattacukor
- vattacukorspun sugar confectionery
Icelandic kandífloss, ullarbrjóstsykur
- kandíflossspun sugar confectionery
- ullarbrjóstsykurspun sugar confectionery
- sykurfrauðspun sugar confectionery
Indonesian gulali, permen kapas
- gulalispun sugar confectionery
- permen kapasspun sugar confectionery
Italian zucchero filato, cotone dolce
- zucchero filatospun sugar confectionery
- cotone dolcespun sugar confectionery
Japanese 綿菓子, 綿飴
- 綿菓子 (watagashi)spun sugar confectionery
- 綿飴 (wataame)spun sugar confectionery
Korean 솜사탕
- 솜사탕 (somsatang)spun sugar confectionery
Latvian cukurvate
- cukurvatespun sugar confectionery
Lithuanian cukraus vata
- cukraus vataspun sugar confectionery
Malay gula kapas, gulali
- gula kapasspun sugar confectionery
- gulalispun sugar confectionery
- alusmitaispun sugar confectionery
- halwa rambutspun sugar confectionery
Māori wūru huka
- wūru hukaspun sugar confectionery
Norwegian Bokmål candyfloss, sukkerspinn
- candyflossspun sugar confectionery
- sukkerspinnspun sugar confectionery
Persian پشمک
- پشمک (pašmak)spun sugar confectionery
Polish wata cukrowa
- wata cukrowaspun sugar confectionery
Portuguese algodão-doce
- algodão-docespun sugar confectionery
Romanian vată de zahăr
- vată de zahărspun sugar confectionery
Russian са́харная ва́та
- са́харная ва́та (sáxarnaja váta)spun sugar confectionery
Scottish Gaelic clòimh mhilis
- clòimh mhilisspun sugar confectionery
Slovak cukrová vata
- cukrová vataspun sugar confectionery
Spanish algodón de azúcar, algodón azucarero
- algodón de azúcarspun sugar confectionery
- algodón azucarerospun sugar confectionery
- algodón sacaríferospun sugar confectionery
- algodón sacarinospun sugar confectionery
Swedish sockervadd, spunnet socker
- sockervaddspun sugar confectionery
- spunnet sockerspun sugar confectionery
Tagalog koton kendi, umikot asukal
- koton kendispun sugar confectionery
- umikot asukalspun sugar confectionery
Tamil பஞ்சு மிட்டாய்
- பஞ்சு மிட்டாய் (pañcu miṭṭāy)spun sugar confectionery
Thai สายไหม
- สายไหม (sǎai-mǎi)spun sugar confectionery
Turkish pamuk şekeri, pamuk helvası
- pamuk şekerispun sugar confectionery
- pamuk helvasıspun sugar confectionery
Ukrainian цукрова вата
- цукрова вата (cukrova vata)spun sugar confectionery
Vietnamese kẹo bông, kẹo bông gòn
- kẹo bôngspun sugar confectionery
- kẹo bông gònspun sugar confectionery
Welsh siwgr nyddu
- siwgr nydduspun sugar confectionery
Cite this entry
cotton candy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cotton%20candy
“cotton candy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cotton%20candy. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cotton candy,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cotton%20candy.
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