barley-sugar

Adjective

 * 1) Very sweet-natured or saccharine; harmless.
 * 2) * c. 1800, Anne Isabella Byron, quoted in Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's wife
 * I shall write to you tomorrow on a subject which I have not now time to discuss. This I declare now because I like to excite your curiosity, and to delay gratifying it. I am a sweet chicken ! ! ! You ought to think me the most barley-sugar daughter in the creation!
 * 1)  Twisted helically.
 * 1)  Twisted helically.
 * 1)  Twisted helically.