candy

/ˈkændi/

/ˈkændi/

Other forms: candies; candied; candying

Candy is a sugary sweet treat. Halloween is partly about dressing up in costumes, but mostly it's about the candy.

Your favorite candy may be sweet and fruity, or so sour you can barely stand to eat it. Other people prefer chocolate when it comes to candy. Candy is also a verb, meaning "coat with a sugary glaze," — you might candy cherries or almonds. And when something's made of candy, the word becomes an adjective: "But it's only a candy cigarette!" The word comes from the Arabic qandi, with its Persian root quand, "cane sugar."

Definitions of candy

1. noun

   a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
   synonyms: confect

   types:

   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

   candy kiss, kiss

   any of several bite-sized candies

   licorice, liquorice

   a candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant (usually black or red)

   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

   barley candy, barley-sugar

   a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar

   jawbreaker

   a large round hard candy

   lemon drop

   a hard candy with lemon flavor and a yellow color and (usually) the shape of a lemon

   sourball

   round piece of tart hard candy

   peppermint patty

   a patty flavored with peppermint

   peanut brittle

   brittle containing peanuts

   chocolate fudge

   fudge made with chocolate or cocoa

   divinity, divinity fudge

   white creamy fudge made with egg whites

   panocha, panoche, penoche, penuche

   fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts

   jujube

   chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat)

   peppermint, peppermint candy

   a candy flavored with peppermint oil

   molasses kiss

   a candy kiss that resembles toffee

   meringue kiss

   a kiss made of sugar and egg white and baked slowly

   chocolate kiss

   a kiss that consists of a conical bite-sized piece of chocolate

   Scotch kiss

   butterscotch candy kiss

   cachou

   a scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco)

   cough drop, pastil, pastille, troche

   a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat

   molasses taffy

   taffy made of molasses

   chocolate egg

   egg-shaped chocolate candy

   candy egg

   egg-shaped candy

   type of:

   confection, sweet

   a food rich in sugar
2. verb

   coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
   synonyms: glaze, sugarcoat

   type of:

   dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten

   make sweeter in taste