fairy floss

alternative fairyfloss

1. AustraliauncountableSynonym of cotton candy.

   The girls were already bagging fairy floss, and stockpiling it as fast as they could.

   2009, Rex Ellis, “Cocklebiddy, the Sydney Show and Kybo Station: Go with the Flow” (chapter 3), in Go with the Flow, Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, →ISBN, page 25

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   Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.

   1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74

   Sophie hands an impatient child a stick of fairy floss and sees Grace walk by, pushing the baby in his stroller.

   2005, Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary, →ISBN, page 282

   Sergeant Snottle pulled out from under his long black chest plate a piece of pink and blue fairy floss.

   2011, Jacqueline Delaney, Professor Yish Kabibble in the Curse of the Scruttles, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 22

   Synonyms: cotton candy