candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăn'di
ipa: /ˈkæn.di/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: candies
form: kandi
Etymology: From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي (sukkar qandī), from Arabic قَنْد (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian کند (kand) from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kaṇṭu, “hard candy”).
Senses: examples: text: They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.
ref: 1991, Celia Brayfield, The Prince:
glosses: Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
examples: text: Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.
ref: 1991, Ann Granger, A Season for Murder:
glosses: A piece of confectionery of this kind.
glosses: crack cocaine.
examples: text: candy kid; candy raver
text: 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."
ref: 2013, Kristen Lynn Harkey, State of Summer: Love and Misadventure of a College Student:
text: 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).
ref: 2016, Susie Dent, Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain:
text: 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.
ref: 2021, Samantha Durbin, Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s:
glosses: An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
Synonyms: sense: confection
word: confectionery
sense: confection
word: sweets
sense: confection
word: lollies
sense: confection
word: sugar candy
sense: piece of candy
word: sweet
sense: piece of candy
word: lolly
Derived terms: arm candy
ballot candy
bee candy
brain candy
candify
candy apple
candy-arse
candy-arsed
candy-ass
candy-assed
candy bar
candy bar phone
candyboy
candy cane
candy cap
candy-coat
candy corn
candy darter
candy flip
candyflipping
candy flipping
candy floss
candy girl
candy glass
candy gore
candy-gram
candygram
candy gram
candyish
candylike
candymaker
candymaking
candyman
candy man
candy-man
candy pink
candy roaster
candy shop
candy store
candy stripe
candy-striped
candy striper
candy thermometer
chest candy
cotton-candy
cotton candy
cough candy
dandy as candy
dragon's beard candy
ear candy
eye candy
fine and dandy like sour candy
gym candy
hand something out like candy
hard candy
ice candy
like taking candy from a baby
mind candy
nature's candy
nose-candy
nose candy
penny candy
popping candy
ribbon candy
rock candy
seafoam candy
squaw candy
sugar candy
sweet as candy