Candy

Word CANDY
Character 5
Hyphenation can dy candy
Pronunciations /ˈkændi/

Definitions and meanings of "Candy"

What do we mean by candy?

A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts. noun

A piece of such a confection. noun

An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA. noun

To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup. transitive verb

An East Indian unit of weight, usually 20 maunds, but sometimes 21 or 22, and varying in different localities and for every commodity. noun

A solid preparation or confection of sugar or molasses, or both, boiled, inspissated, and worked by pulling to a crystalline consistence, either alone or combined with flavoring and coloring substances; hence, any confection having sugar as its basis, however prepared. Candy made of or with molasses is specifically called molasses candy and taffy. noun

Sugared; sweet.

To form into congelations or crystals; congeal in a crystalline form or inspissated concretion: as, to candy sugar, honey, etc.

To preserve or incrust with sugar, as fruits, by immersing them in it while boiling and removing them separately or in mass.

To cover or incrust with concretions or crystals, as of ice.

To take the form of, or become incrusted by, candied sugar: as, pre-serves candy with long keeping.

To become crystallized or congealed.

To have sugar crystals form in or on. intransitive verb

To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass. intransitive verb

To conserve or boil in sugar. transitive verb

To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy. transitive verb

To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy. transitive verb

Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide variety of shapes, consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be applied to a single piece of such confection or to the substance of which it is composed. noun

Cocaine. noun

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.

(slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.

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The word "candy" in example sentences

"It's like takin 'candy from a baby," he disclaimed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As her presence was not required in the chamber, Katy went down-stairs to what she called the candy room. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

Mohamed said Misrata's hospitals were seeing victims of what he described as candy bombs - something that resembles a pretty bottle. ❋ Harriet Sherwood (2011)

People have been asking me what kind of candy is best and if chocolate is OK in the heat. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So very much brain candy is up at Coyote Blog with this week’s “Carnival of the Vanities.” ❋ Unknown (2005)

He and I slept together-virtuously; and one bitter winter's night a cousin Mary-she's married now and gone-gave what they call a candy-pulling in those days in the West, and they took the saucers of hot candy outside of the house into the snow, under a sort of old bower that came from the eaves-it was a sort of an ell then, all covered with vines-to cool this hot candy in the snow, and they were all sitting there. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Senate has rewarded the Health Insurance industry more money like candy is given to children as a reward for good behavior. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oksana's mother watches her scrub the floor while eating candy from a bowl. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And rising spending on home decorations and candy is fast making Halloween "the other Christmas," retailers say. ❋ Sue Shellenbarger (2010)

Eye candy for the sake of eye candy is lame. ericesque ❋ Unknown (2009)

Eye candy is nice, eye candy can be cool, but it doesn't make a sense of wonder without a great script. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Storage for candy is even more important than for other baked goods because candies can be very sensitive to changes in the humidity levels in the air. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not to diminish the hard work and creativity of all the SFX teams, but great eye candy is as common as dirt nowadays. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The thing about the jailbait eye-candy is she isn't actually 15 going on 16, the actress is 21 in this movie. ❋ Wendigomountain (2010)

He probably thinks the taking of their souls will be easier then taking candy from a baby. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"It's like candy from a baby," Danny's manager proclaimed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An 'then -- it's takin' candy from a baby -- I'll contract with the brickyard for twenty cents a yard -- maybe more. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More and more people around here are making the connection, we cannot afford the path we are on now and we need change, the candy is too costly as is Candy Coakley. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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