candy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Sweet food made mainly of sugar or chocolate.

   The children spent their pocket money on candy at the corner shop.

2. 2
   noun

   A single piece of this sweet food.

   She offered me a candy from the small paper bag.

3. 3
   verb

   To cook fruit or peel in sugar so that it is coated and preserved.

   They candied the orange peel to use in the holiday cake.

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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