2013年9月16日 · The use of sugar plum to mean honey or sweetie is common in popular music. For example, Ike Clanton had a minor hit in 1962 with a song called "Sugar Plum." The Collins Kids recorded a different song by the same title in the late '50s.

2011年6月15日 · Meaning "something desirable" is first recorded 1780, probably in ref. to the sugar-rich bits of a plum pudding, etc. Some of the OED references seem to be examples of plum being used to mean "something desirable" rather than …

2015年9月21日 · I have done quite a bit of searching, no result. Is there a term for the young equivalent of a "Sugar Daddy/Momma"? Not a "Sugar Baby", but a young person who does what a "Sugar Daddy" typically would do (give financial support, buy material necessities and auxiliaries, often for sexual favours in return).

Sugar, sure and sumac are the only three in Modern English, but historically there were others. In the sixteenth century a phonetic change of sy- to sh- was attested (in the shape of sh- misspellings) not just in the words sugar and sure, but also in words like suit (variously spelled shute, shutte, shuite and shuett), suet (spelled showitt ...

2011年5月15日 · In some parts of the metropolis "plum-pudding clubs" have been established. Pudding clubs were still active in London (and presumably elsewhere) at least as late as 1883, when a local newspaper reported a case involving the interception of an eight-year-old child who was trying to convey 2 shillings from his mother to "the grocer's pudding club."

2021年11月26日 · But my guess is that “with sugar on top” actually arose much earlier, at least by the 1950s. While sprinkling sugar on food has a long history, it was in the 1950s when ready-made sugar-coated breakfast cereal became popular, and the phrase may have been spawned then in imitation of advertising (“Ask Mom for Choco-Balls — the ones with ...

There is no official English: English is what its speakers make of it. That said, and/or is terrible English. It should be avoided, and people who use it should be made fun of.

2014年10月28日 · In writing the phrase and/or, for example in a sentence as: I need to purchase a new item and/or return this one. the sentence would literally translate to: I need to purchase a new item and and or or return this one.

In formal usage, it should definitely be is:. Neither of these options is available. This is the traditional rule (iirc, Fowler’s discusses this at length).

In the American South, it’s quite common for women to address total strangers, as honey, sugar, baby, etc. (On TV, black men do too, but I haven’t observed this first-hand. It might be fiction.) It’s a tricky thing because you’re taking a very familiar attitude.