sweetshop

See also: sweet-shop and sweet shop

English

Alternative forms

sweet shop, sweet-shop (in attributive use)

Etymology

From sweet +‎ shop.

Noun

sweetshop (plural sweetshops)

A shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery.
- 2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, Rail, page 54:
  Likewise, when I go into my local sweetshop to buy a chocolate bar, the shopkeeper doesn't look me up and down, notice I'm a bit overweight, and suggest I pop round to the greengrocers next door and buy an apple instead.
(slang, euphemistic) A drug dealer.

Translations

shop selling predominantly confectionery

Afrikaans: suikerwerk
Albanian: ëmbëltore (sq)
Arabic: صَنَاعَةُ الْحَلْوَيَات f (ṣanāʕatu l-ḥalwayāt)
Armenian: հրուշակարան (hy) (hrušakaran)
Azerbaijani: qənnadı
Basque: gozogintza
Belarusian: кандытарская f (kandytarskaja)
Bulgarian: сладка́рница (bg) f (sladkárnica)
Catalan: confiteria f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 糖果店 (tángguǒdiàn)
Czech: cukrářství n
Dutch: snoepwinkel (nl) m
Esperanto: sukeraĵejo
Estonian: kondiitriäri, konditoria
Finnish: makeiskauppa (fi), karkkikauppa (fi)
French: confiserie (fr) f, pâtisserie (fr) f
Galician: pastelería (gl) f
Georgian: საკონდიტრო (saḳondiṭro), საკონდიტრო მაღაზია (saḳondiṭro maɣazia), საშაქარლამო (sašakarlamo), საშაქარლამო მაღაზია (sašakarlamo maɣazia), ტკბილეულობის მაღაზია (ṭḳbileulobis maɣazia)
German: Konditorei (de) f, Süßwarengeschäft n, Süßwarenladen (de) m
Greek: ζαχαροπλαστείο (el) n (zacharoplasteío)
Haitian Creole: patisri
Ido: bonbonerio
Indonesian: toko kue
Irish: taosráin f
Italian: pasticceria (it) f, confetteria f
Japanese: 菓子屋 (ja) (かしや, kashiya), お菓子屋 (ja) (おかしや, o-kashiya)
Ladino: dulseria, shekerdjilik
Macedonian: слатка́рница f (slatkárnica)
Malay: penganan (ms)
Norman: boutique à chucrîns f
Persian: قنادی (fa) (qannâdi)
Polish: cukiernia (pl) f
Portuguese: doçaria (pt) f, doceria (pt) f, pastelaria (pt) f
Romanian: cofetărie (ro) f
Russian: конди́терская (ru) f (kondíterskaja)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: посластичарница f, сластичарница f, сластичарна f, посластичара f,бомбонџија f

Roman: poslastičarnica (sh) f, slastičarnica (sh) f, slastičarna (sh) f, poslastičara f, bombondžija (sh) f
Slovak: cukráreň f
Slovene: slaščičarna f
Spanish: confitería (es) f, dulcería (es) f, caramelería f
Swedish: godisaffär c, godisbutik (sv) c
Turkish: şekerlemeci dükkânı, pastane (tr)
Ukrainian: конди́терська f (kondýtersʹka), конди́терська крамни́ця f (kondýtersʹka kramnýcja)
Uzbek: qandolat mahsulotlari
Vietnamese: bánh cửa hàng
Welsh: siop losin

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