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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