sweetstuff

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   sweet food collectively, especially sweets or confectionery; chiefly British and now somewhat dated

   Children crowded around the sweetstuff stall to buy toffee and boiled sweets.

A lexicalized compound of sweet + stuff, recorded as a mass noun for confectionery. Its frequent historical attributive use survives in combinations such as sweetstuff shop, seller, and stall.

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