candy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: candies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kandi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: candies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: candying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: candied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: candied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
uncountable
examples: They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.
gloss: A piece of confectionery of this kind.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
countable
examples: Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.
gloss: crack cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: candy kid; candy raver
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.
gloss: To cook in or coat with sugar syrup.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Fruits preserved in sugar candy over time.
gloss: To become candy; to solidify into a candylike form or mass.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: confectionery
sweets
lollies
sugar candy
Derived words: 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
candy man
candy-man
candyman
candy pink
candy roaster
candy shop
candy store
candy stripe
candy-striped
candy striper
candy thermometer
candy wrapper
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
hard candy
ice candy
like 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
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