candy — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.

   Usage

   • Uncountable

2. Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

   Usage

   • Canada
   • Philippines
   • US usage
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.

3. A piece of confectionery of this kind.

   Usage

   • Canada
   • Philippines
   • US usage
   • Countable

   Examples

   Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.

4. crack cocaine.

   Usage

   • US usage
   • Countable
   • Slang
   • Uncountable

5. An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.

   Usage

   • Uncountable

   Examples

   candy kid; candy raver

   More examples (3)

   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! Your first piece of kandi."

   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 Molly).

   The first candy bracelet I made was for myself. I alternated blue, orange, and glow-in-the-dark beads with letter beads that spelled “Ferari” to represent my (first) raver sobriquet, Ferrari Ravioli. (Yes, I spelled it wrong. I didn’t notice my typo at the time.) Side note: this is now referred to as “kandi” bracelets, but we spelled it the old-fashioned way.

Verb

1. To cook in or coat with sugar syrup.

   Usage

   • Transitive

2. To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Examples

   Fruits preserved in sugar candy over time.

3. To become candy; to solidify into a candylike form or mass.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

Noun

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

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Synonyms

   maunee

Noun

1. a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

   Synonyms

   confect

   Broader terms

   sweetconfection

Verb

1. coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

   Synonyms

   sugarcoatglaze

   Broader terms

   sweetendulcifyedulcoratedulcorate