Secundum OED1: lollipop :- "a. [T]he name of a particular kind of sweetmeat, consisting chiefly of sugar or treacle, that dissolves easily in the mouth. b. pl, (formerly also collect. sing.) Sweetmeats in general." And, our good old friend, Francis Grose [danger! unexploded Wikipedia!] (Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue) is cited: "lollipops, sweet lozenges purchased by children". And, interestingly, it was verbed in 1837: "Mere children in matters of taste, fit only to be lollypopped by his 'lady'" (Fraser's Magazine XV, 337). I guess the USan improvement was to add the stick, as it were.

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