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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Skittles

Pronunciation / Transliteration: skittles

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Skittles/ˈskɪt.əlz/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die Kinder lieben es, Skittles zu naschen."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A popular brand of small, fruit-flavored candies with a hard sugar shell bearing the letter 'S'.

    "She poured a handful of Skittles into her mouth and tasted the rainbow."
  2. 2

    A traditional British pub and lawn game similar to bowling, played by rolling a ball at wooden pins.

    "The village pub has a dedicated alley in the back for playing traditional skittles on weekends."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Originating from the traditional European lawn game of skittles, which dates back to the Middle Ages involving wooden pins, the term later became widely known as a proprietary name for colorful fruit-flavored button-shaped candies introduced in the late 20th century.

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