candy
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noun
Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.
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noun
A piece of confectionery of this kind.
Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.
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noun
An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
candy kid; candy raver
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verb
To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup.
Fruits preserved in sugar candy over time.
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name
The Mediterranean island of Crete.
Assure thy selfe that as for me I never will agree That Candie Joves owne foster place (as long as I there raigne) Shall unto such a monstruous Wight a Harbrow place remaine.
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name
The Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka; (by extension) the British colony of Ceylon on that island.
Mr. W. H. GREGORY, the accomplished Member for Galway, goes to Ceylon as Governor. […] A pleasant exile, and a safe return, are Mr. Punch’s sweet wishes to him who departeth for Candy.
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name
The city of Kandy, the capital of that kingdom.
The First is the City of Candy, so generally called by the Christians, probably from Conde, which in the Chingulays Language signifies Hills, for among them it is situated […]
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name
A surname.
Suddenly, to his horror, Mr Candy found himself in what Ma would have called a terrible two-and-eight.
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”).