marshmallow
- noun
- B2
- Top 10000
A soft, springy piece of sweet food, usually white or pink, that goes soft and brown when you hold it over a fire.
We toasted marshmallows on long sticks until they turned golden brown.
The bag of marshmallows had gone hard at the back of the cupboard.
Marshmallows squash flat between your fingers and then slowly spring back.
She threaded pink and white marshmallows onto a thin wooden skewer.
Common collocations: toast marshmallows · roast marshmallows · a bag of marshmallows · mini marshmallows · marshmallows melt
Part of: Sweets
Forms
- plural
- marshmallows