popcorn

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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Short for popped corn. By surface analysis, pop + corn.

It is like a huge bowl of popcorn." — Carl and the Cotton Gin, Sara Ware Bassett
They munched fresh-roasted peanuts and balls of sugar-coated popcorn, slightly rancid, until they munched no longer with zest but merely mechanically. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
The popcorn was heavily larded with partially boiled molasses, and Penrod sandwiched mouthfuls of peanuts with gobs of this mass until the peanuts were all gone. — Penrod, Booth Tarkington

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