candy

Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.

Noun

  1. Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
  2. Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
    • They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip. - 1991, Celia Brayfield, The Prince:
  3. A piece of confectionery of this kind.
    • Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays. - 1991, Ann Granger, A Season for Murder:
  4. crack cocaine.
  5. An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
    • candy kid; candy raver
    • Then while our hands were still connected, he slid a colorful beaded bracelet among the many others he had off of his arm and then onto my wrist without having to break our intertwined hands. "And there you have it!...
    • The mantra of the rave is PLUR: peace, love, unity, respect, while the tribal badge is kandi: colourful bracelets made out of chunky beads (and not the same as candy, the drugs that might also feature, such as E or...

Origin

From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي (sukkar qandī), from Arabic قَنْد (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian کند (kand) from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kaṇṭu, “hard candy”).

Forms

candies kandi

Synonyms

confectionery sweets lollies sugar candy sweet lolly

Derived

arm candy ballot candy bee candy brain candy candify candy apple candy-arse candy-arsed candy-ass candy-assed candy bar candy bar phone candyboy candy cane candy cap candy-coat candy corn candy darter candy flip candyflipping candy flipping candy floss candy girl candy glass

Noun obsolete

  1. A unit of weight used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Origin

From Marathi खंडी (khaṇḍī), from Sanskrit खण्डन (khaṇḍana), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”).

Forms

candies candee candie candil kandy

Synonyms

maunee

Verb

  1. To cook in or coat with sugar syrup.
  2. To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup.
    • Fruits preserved in sugar candy over time.
  3. To become candy; to solidify into a candylike form or mass.

Forms

candies candying candied