Candy Definition

kăndē
candied, candies, candying
noun
candies
A sweet food, usually in small pieces or bars, made mainly from sugar or syrup, with flavoring, fruit, chocolate, nuts, etc. added.
Webster's New World
A piece of such food.
Webster's New World
Crystallized sugar made by boiling and evaporating cane sugar, syrup, etc.
Webster's New World
An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA.
American Heritage Medicine
Someone or something variously regarded as being frivolously or superficially desirable, attractive, pleasing, exciting, etc.
Ear candy.
Webster's New World
verb
candied
To become candied.
Webster's New World
To cook in or with sugar or syrup so as to glaze, encrust, or preserve.
Webster's New World
To crystallize into or like sugar.
Webster's New World
To sweeten; make pleasant.
Webster's New World
(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
Wiktionary
pronoun

A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.

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Other Word Forms of Candy

Noun

Singular:
candy
Plural:
candies

Origin of Candy

  • Middle English candi crystallized cane sugar short for sugre-candi partial translation of Old French sucre candi ultimately from Arabic sukkar qandī sukkar sugar qandī consisting of sugar lumps (from qand lump of crystallized sugar) (from an Indic source akin to Pali kaṇḍa-) (from Sanskrit khaṇḍakaḥ) (from khaṇḍaḥ piece, fragment) (perhaps of Munda origin)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English candi crystallized cane sugar short for sugre-candi partial translation of Old French sucre candi ultimately from Arabic sukkar qandī sukkar sugar qandī consisting of sugar lumps (from qand lump of crystallized sugar) (from an Indic source akin to Pali kaṇḍa-) (from Sanskrit khaṇḍakaḥ) (from khaṇḍaḥ piece, fragment) (perhaps of Munda origin)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French sucre candi ("candy sugar"), from Arabic قندي (qandi, “candied”), from Arabic قند (qand, “hard candy made by boiling cane sugar”), from Persian کند (kand); ultimately from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “candied sugar”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kantu, “hard candy”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Marathi खंडी (khaṇḍī), from Sanskrit खण्डन (khaṇḍana), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”).

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