candy
Meanings
noun
- Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
- Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
- A piece of confectionery of this kind.
- crack cocaine.
- An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
verb
- To cook in or coat with sugar syrup.
- To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup.
- To become candy; to solidify into a candylike form or mass.
noun
- A unit of weight used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
name
- A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.
name
- The Mediterranean island of Crete.
name
- The Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka; (by extension) the British colony of Ceylon on that island.
- The city of Kandy, the capital of that kingdom.
name
- A surname.
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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”).
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