candy
Plural: candies
Noun
- a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
- Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
- A piece of confectionery of this kind.
- crack cocaine.
- An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
- A unit of weight used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
Verb
- coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
- To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
- To have sugar crystals form in or on.
- To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
Examples
- "candy kid; candy raver"
- "Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time."
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
confect, confectionery, glaze, lollies, lolly, maunee, sugar candy, sugarcoat, sweet, sweets
Scrabble Score: 11
candy is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordcandy is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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