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Candy
Candy, also called sweets or lollies, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy. Vegetables, fruit, or nuts which have been glazed and coated with sugar are said to be candied.
Physically, candy is characterized by the use of a significant amount of sugar or sugar substitutes. Unlike a cake or loaf of bread that would be shared among many people, candies are usually made in smaller pieces. However, the definition of candy also depends upon how people treat the food. Unlike sweet pastries served for a dessert course at the end of a meal, candies are normally eaten casually, often with the fingers, as a snack between meals. Each culture has its own ideas of what constitutes candy rather than dessert. The same food may be a candy in one culture and a dessert in another.
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Candy (noun)
Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
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Candy (noun)
A piece of confectionery of this kind.
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Candy (noun)
crack cocaine
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Candy (noun)
A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
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Candy (verb)
To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
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Candy (verb)
To have sugar crystals form in or on.
“Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.”
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Candy (verb)
To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
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Candies (noun)
plural of candie
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Candies (noun)
plural of candy