lollipop
n. countablen. a hard candy on the end of a small stick. You hold the stick while you lick or suck the candy.
n. a piece of hard confectionery, typically spherical or disk-shaped, mounted on a small stick for consumption.
The child chose a red strawberry lollipop from the jar.
The bank teller often keeps a bowl of lollipops on the counter to give to children visiting with their parents.
While traditionally associated with simple fruit flavours, artisanal confectioners now produce lollipops featuring complex botanical infusions and edible flowers encased in clear sugar.
By surface analysis, loll (“laze, hang loose”) + y + pop (“shot, try, burst, enter”); likely through lolly (“head, tongue”). Attested from 1784. Compare lollygag and lollypoop. An unlikely derivation is from Romani loli (“red”) + phabaj (“apple”); candy apples are often red and placed on a stick to keep the person's hands dry, similar to lollipops. However candy apples were not well-known until a century after the first known use of the word lollipop, and the original lollipop was likely a small item like modern penny candy.