ear candy
ear candy noun: light popular music that has an instant appeal but no lasting impact or significance.
Noun
ear candy (uncountable)
- Light popular music that has an instant appeal but no lasting impact or significance.
- Mumba's music is ear candy: it crunches, it bubbles, it melts in the mouth.2000 November 27, Christopher John Farley, “Irish Spring”, in Time, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2014
- I wanted it to just be something fun to listen to, like ear candy. I think that's what we got.2013, Mathew Klickstein, quoting Rachel Sweet, Slimed!, Penguin, →ISBN, page 129
- Synonyms:
- muzak
ear candy meaning in Tamil
ear candy in Tamil
- ஒலிமிகு இனிய இசை
Synonyms of ear candy
Origin of ear candy
Likely analogous to eye candy.
Questions about ear candy
- What does ear candy mean?
- Ear candy means light popular music that has an instant appeal but no lasting impact or significance.
- What is ear candy in Tamil?
- Ear candy in Tamil is ஒலிமிகு இனிய இசை. See Ear candy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ear candy?
- Ear candy is a noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ear candy (page history and authors); ear candy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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