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can·dy
(kăn′dē)n. pl. can·dies
1.
a. A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.
b. A piece of such a confection.
2. Slang An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA.
tr.v. can·died, can·dy·ing, can·dies
To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup: candy apples; candy ginger.
[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).]
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candy
(ˈkændɪ)n, pl -dies
1. chiefly US and Canadian confectionery in general; sweets, chocolate, etc
2. a person or thing that is regarded as being attractive but superficial: arm candy.
3. like taking candy from a baby informal very easy to accomplish
vb, -dies, -dying or -died
4. (Cookery) to cause (sugar, etc) to become crystalline, esp by boiling or (of sugar) to become crystalline through boiling
5. (Cookery) (tr) to preserve (fruit peel, ginger, etc) by boiling in sugar
6. (Cookery) (tr) to cover with any crystalline substance, such as ice or sugar
[C18: from Old French sucre candi candied sugar, from Arabic qandi candied, from qand cane sugar, of Dravidian origin]
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can•dy
(ˈkæn di)n., pl. -dies, n.
1. any of various confections made with sugar or syrup, often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
2. a single piece of such a confection.
3. Slang. someone or something that is excellent, pleasing, or pleasurable (often used in combination): eye candy.
v.t. 4. to cook in sugar or syrup until glazed, as sweet potatoes.
5. to preserve by cooking in heavy syrup until translucent, as fruit or fruit peel.
6. to reduce (sugar, syrup, etc.) to a crystalline form, usu. by boiling down.
7. to roll in granulated sugar.
8. to make sweet, palatable, or agreeable.
v.i. 9. to become covered with sugar.
10. to crystallize into sugar.
[1225–75; Middle English candi, sugre candi candied sugar < Middle French sucre candi; candi « Arabic qandī < Persian qandi sugar < Skt khaṇḍaka]
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Candy
to form into congelations—Johnson, 1755; to be in a congealed state.Example: candied with ice—Shakespeare.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
sweets
– candy1. 'sweets'
In British English, small, sweet things that you eat, such as toffees and chocolates, are called sweets.
She did not allow her children to eat too many sweets.
2. 'candy'
In American English, sweet things like these are called candy. Candy is an uncountable noun.
You eat too much candy. It's bad for your teeth.
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candy
Past participle: candied
Gerund: candying
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| Noun | 1. |  candy - a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nutsconfection, sweet - a food rich in sugar candy bar - a candy shaped as a bar carob bar - a bar of candy made with carob powder hard candy - candy that is brittle; "you can break a tooth on that hard candy" 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 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 candy, mint - 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 Life Saver - a candy shaped like a small lifesaver lozenge - a small aromatic or medicated candy marshmallow - spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar 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 candy, rock - 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 |
| Verb | 1. | candy - coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze |
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candy
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Translations
حَلْوى السُّكَّر نَباتحَلَوِياتحُلْوَيات
bonboncukrovícukrovinkykandovaný cukrkaramela
slikbolsje
makeiset
slatkiši
jegeccukor
brjóstsykursælgæti
キャンデー
사탕
cukraus vatacukruotasglajuslydytas cukrussaldainiai
karamelekonfektessaldumi
bonbónkandizovaný cukor
bonbonsladkarija
godis
ลูกกวาด
bánh kẹo
candy
[ˈkændɪ]A. N
B. VT [+ fruit] → escarchar
C. CPD candy bar N (US) → barrita f de caramelo; (chocolate) → chocolatina f
candy store N (US) → confitería f, bombonería f
like a kid in a candy store (esp US) → como el rey/la reina del mambo, como si fuera el amo/ama del mundo
candy store N (US) → confitería f, bombonería f
like a kid in a candy store (esp US) → como el rey/la reina del mambo, como si fuera el amo/ama del mundo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
candy
[ˈkændi] n (US) (= confectionery) → bonbons mpl
(= sweet) → bonbon mcandy bar n (US) → barre f chocolatée
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
candy
n (US: = sweet) → Bonbon m or nt; (= sweets) → Süßigkeiten pl, → Bonbons pl; (= bar of chocolate) (→ Tafel f) → Schokolade f; (= individual chocolate) → Praline f; it’s like taking candy from a baby → das ist kinderleicht
vt sugar → kristallisieren lassen; fruit etc → kandieren
candy
:candy apple
n (US) → kandierter Apfel
candy-ass
candy bar
n (US) → Schokoladenriegel m, → Schokoriegel m
candyfloss
n (Brit) → Zuckerwatte f
candy store
n (US) → Süßwarenhandlung f, → Bonbonladen m (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
candy
(ˈkӕndi) – plural ˈcandies – noun1. sugar formed into a solid mass by boiling.
2. (American) a sweet or sweets; (a piece of) confectionery. That child eats too much candy; Have a candy!
ˈcandied adjective covered with sugar. candied fruits.
candy floss (American cotton candy) flavoured sugar spun into a fluffy ball on the end of a stick.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
candy
→ حَلَوِيات cukrovinky slik Süßigkeiten ζαχαρωτά golosinas makeiset bonbons slatkiši caramelle キャンデー 사탕 snoepjes sukkertøy słodycze doces сласти godis ลูกกวาด tatlılar bánh kẹo 糖果Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
candy
n. dulce, confite, caramelo.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
candy
n (pl -dies) dulces mpl, caramelos; a piece of candy..un dulce…Candy is bad for your teeth..Los dulces son malos para los dientes.English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.