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Quotation dates: 1924
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‡CURLY-DODDY, CURLIE-DODDY, n. comb.1 “The name given to a sort of sugar-plums, rough with confectionery on the outside, given to children” (Rxb. 1825 Jam.2, curlie-; 1923 Watson W.-B., obsol.).m.Sc. 1924 “O. Douglas” Pink Sugar (1928) xv.:
I was allowed to buy sweets called Market Mixtures, and there were fragments of the pink hearts among the curly-doddies and round white bools, and delicious they tasted.
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