candy

Noun (1)

candy (countable and uncountable, plural candies)

1. (uncountable) Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
2. (Canada, Philippines, US, uncountable) 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.1991, Celia Brayfield, The Prince
3. (Canada, Philippines, US, countable) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
   • Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.1991, Ann Granger, A Season for Murder

   Synonyms:

   sweet, lolly

4. (US, slang) crack cocaine.
5. (uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
   • candy kid; candy raver
   • Then while our hands were still connected, he slid a colorful beaded bracelet among the many others he had off of his arm and then onto my wrist without having to break our intertwined hands. "And there you have it! Your first piece of kandi."2013, Kristen Lynn Harkey, State of Summer: Love and Misadventure of a College Student

Verb

candy (third-person singular simple present candies, present participle candying, simple past and past participle candied)

1. (transitive) To cook in or coat with sugar syrup.
2. (intransitive) To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup.
   • Fruits preserved in sugar candy over time.
3. (intransitive) To become candy; to solidify into a candylike form or mass.

Noun (2)

candy (plural candies)

1. (obsolete) A unit of weight used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

   Synonyms:

   maunee

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Candy

IPA/ˈkændi/

Candy

1. A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Candy

Candy

1. (historical) 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.1567, Ovid, “The Eighth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC
   • Orsino, this is that Antonio
     That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy;
     And this is he that did the Tiger board,
     When your young nephew Titus lost his leg:c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Candy

Candy

1. (historical) 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.1872 January 20, Punch
2. (historical) 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 […]1681, Robert Knox, chapter 2, in An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, London: R. Chiswell, page 5

Proper noun (4) capitalized: Candy

Candy

1. A surname.
   • Suddenly, to his horror, Mr Candy found himself in what Ma would have called a terrible two-and-eight.1963, H. E. Bates, Oh! To be in England
   • The phone was then handed over to the other perpetrating programmer of SPECTACLE who described himself as 'the other Simon' who talked me through some of the program's low spots while Robin Candy punched the buttons on the Spectrum.1985 March, Crash, number 14, page 62