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CANDY

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Irregular inflected form: candied   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

Synonyms:

candy; confect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("candy" is a kind of...):

confection; sweet (a food rich in sugar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "candy"):

candy kiss; kiss (any of several bite-sized candies)

licorice; liquorice (a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant)

Life Saver (a candy shaped like a small lifesaver)

all-day sucker; lollipop; sucker (hard candy on a stick)

lozenge (a small aromatic or medicated candy)

marshmallow (spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar)

marchpane; marzipan (almond paste and egg whites)

nougat (nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste)

nougat bar (a bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolate)

nut bar (paste of nuts and sugar on a pastry base cut into bars)

peanut bar (bar of peanuts in taffy)

popcorn ball (popcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into balls)

praline (cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans)

rock candy (sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string)

rock; rock candy (hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint))

sugar candy (made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens)

sugarplum (any of various small sugary candies)

taffy (chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy)

chocolate truffle; truffle (creamy chocolate candy)

Turkish Delight (a jellied candy typically flavored with rose water)

Easter egg (an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter)

candy bar (a candy shaped as a bar)

carob bar (a bar of candy made with carob powder)

hard candy (candy that is brittle)

brandyball (a British candy flavored with brandy)

patty (round flat candy)

bonbon (a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate)

brittle; toffee; toffy (caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets)

butterscotch (a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar)

candy cane (a hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes))

candy corn (a small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corn)

caramel (firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk)

candyfloss; cotton candy; spun sugar (a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature)

dragee (sugar-coated nut or fruit piece)

dragee (silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes)

fondant (candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste)

fudge (soft creamy candy)

gumdrop (a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals)

honey crisp (a crisp candy made with honey)

mint; mint candy (a candy that is flavored with a mint oil)

horehound (a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant)

jelly bean; jelly egg (sugar-glazed jellied candy)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

Synonyms:

candy; glaze; sugarcoat

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "candy" is one way to...):

dulcify; dulcorate; edulcorate; sweeten (make sweeter in taste)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Don't try too many messes, Jo, for you can't make anything but gingerbread and molasses candy fit to eat.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Also, there were horns, and dolls, and toys of various sorts, and parcels and bundles of candies and nuts that filled the arms of all the Silvas to overflowing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Eating lots of sugary candy may strain the liver, alter the body's fatty acid metabolism and increase the risk of cardiometabolic diseases already in childhood, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.

(Blood Fatty Acids Reveal Your Child's Diet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This December, your friends may have candy canes dancing in their heads now that the holiday season is upon us, but not you—you will have to hit the ground running, for assignments will tumble toward you rapidly like snowflakes in a blizzard.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Why, thirty thousand, lump sum, wouldn't buy for him right now what ten cents he was layin' up would have bought him, when he was a kid, in the way of candy an' peanuts or a seat in nigger heaven.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)