candy
IPA: kˈændi
noun
- (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
- (countable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
- (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.
- (uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
- (obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
- A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.
- (historical) The Mediterranean island of Crete.
- (historical) The Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka; (by extension) the British colony of Ceylon on that island.
- (historical) The city of Kandy, the capital of that kingdom.
- A surname.
verb
- (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
- (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
- (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
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Examples of "candy" in Sentences
- The boy crumped on the candy.
- The candy is separable into two.
- The man gave his daughter candy.
- The candy was cloying to the children.
- The boy opened the mouth to eat a candy.
- The cereal is based on the original candy.
- Candy is the uptight neatfreak of the group.
- In the meantime, his candy stashed in the room.
- The sugar was excreted through the cotton candy.
- Radiskull eats the candy, the fruit, and the bowl.