candy

See also: Candy

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈkændi/

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• Rhymes: -ændi

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

candy (countable and uncountable, plural candies)

1. (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
   • 1991, Celia Brayfield, The Prince:

     They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.

2. (countable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
   • 1991, Ann Granger, A Season for Murder:

     Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.

3. (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.
4. (uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.

   candy kid; candy raver

   • 2013, Kristen Lynn Harkey, State of Summer: Love and Misadventure of a College Student‎^[2]:

     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."

   • 2016, Susie Dent, Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain‎^[3]:

     The mantra of the rave is PLUR: peace, love, unity, respect, while the tribal badge is kandi: colourful bracelets made out of chunky beads (and not the same as candy, the drugs that might also feature, such as E or Molly).

   • 2021, Samantha Durbin, Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s‎^[4]:

     The first candy bracelet I made was for myself. I alternated blue, orange, and glow-in-the-dark beads with letter beads that spelled “Ferari” to represent my (first) raver sobriquet, Ferrari Ravioli. (Yes, I spelled it wrong. I didn’t notice my typo at the time.)
     Side note: this is now referred to as “kandi” bracelets, but we spelled it the old-fashioned way.

Alternative forms

• (rave accessory): kandi

Synonyms

• (confection): confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Commonwealth), sugar candy (US)
• (piece of candy): sweet (British), lolly (Commonwealth)

Derived terms

• arm candy
• ballot candy
• bee candy
• brain candy
• candify
• candy apple
• candy-arse
• candy-ass
• candy-assed
• candy bar
• candy bar phone
• candyboy
• candy cane
• candy cap
• candy-coat
• candy corn
• candy darter
• candy flipping
• candyflipping
• candy floss
• candy girl
• candy glass
• candy gore
• candy gram
• candy-gram
• candygram
• candyish
• candylike
• candymaker
• candymaking
• candy-man
• candyman
• candy man
• candy pink
• candy roaster
• candy shop
• candy store
• candy stripe
• candy-striped
• candy striper
• candy thermometer
• chest candy
• cotton-candy
• cotton candy
• cough candy
• dandy as candy
• dragon's beard candy
• ear candy
• eye candy
• fine and dandy like sour candy
• gym candy
• hand something out like candy
• hard candy
• ice candy
• like taking candy from a baby
• mind candy
• nature's candy
• nose candy
• nose-candy
• penny candy
• popping candy
• ribbon candy
• rock candy
• seafoam candy
• squaw candy
• sugar candy
• sweet as candy

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: kendi
• → Hindi: कैंडी (kaiṇḍī)
• → Hopi: kyenti
• → Japanese: キャンディ (kyandi)
• → Kashubian: kindus (United States)
• → Korean: 캔디 (kaendi)
• → Tagalog: kendi

Translations

confection — see confectionery

piece of candy

• Afrikaans: lekkergoed
• Albanian: karamele (sq) f, bonbone (sq) f, sheqerkë (sq) f
• Ambonese Malay: gula-gula
• Apache:

  Western Apache: ilkąądijígé

• Arabic: حَلْوَى f (ḥalwā), حَلْوَى سُكَّرِيَّة f (ḥalwā sukkariyya)

  Gulf Arabic: حلاو (ḥəlaw)

  Hijazi Arabic: حلاوة f (ḥalāwa)

• Armenian: կոնֆետ (hy) (konfet)
• Azerbaijani: konfet (az), çərəz (az)
• Bashkir: кәнфит (kənfit)
• Belarusian: цуке́рка f (cukjérka)
• Bengali: মিছরি (bn) (michori), ক্যান্ডি (bn) (kênḍi)
• Bulgarian: бонбо́н m (bonbón)
• Burmese: ချိုချဉ် (my) (hkyuihkyany), သကြားလုံး (my) (sa.kra:lum:)
• Catalan: caramel (ca) m, llaminadura (ca) f, llepolia (ca) (Valencian)
• Chechen: кемпет (kempet)
• Cherokee: ᎧᎵᏎᏥ (kalisetsi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 糖 (yue) (tong^4-2)

  Dungan: тон (ton)

  Eastern Min: 糖 (tòng)

  Hakka: 糖仔 (thòng-é)

  Hokkien: 糖仔 (thn̂g-á), 金含 (zh-min-nan) (kim-kâm)

  Mandarin: 糖果 (zh) (tángguǒ), 糖 (zh) (táng)

  Wu: 糖, 糖果

  Xiang: 糖粒子 (dan² li⁴ zr)

• Crimean Tatar: qanfet
• Czech: sladkost (cs) f, bonbón (cs) m
• Danish: slik (da)
• Dhivehi: މެޓާ (meṭā)
• Dutch: snoepje (nl)
• Esperanto: dolĉaĵo, sukeraĵo
• Estonian: komm (et), kompvek
• Faroese: góðgæti n, bomm n
• Finnish: karkki (fi)
• French: bonbon (fr) m, sucrerie (fr) f, dragée (fr) f
• Georgian: კანფეტი (ka) (ḳanpeṭi)
• German: Süßigkeit (de) f, Konfekt (de) n, Bonbon (de) m or n

  Alemannic German: Zältli n, Täfi n

• Greek: καραμέλα (el) f (karaméla), ζαχαρωτό (el) n (zacharotó)
• Hebrew: סוכריה / סֻכָּרִיָּה (he) f (sukari'a), מַמְתָּק (he) m (mamtáq)
• Hindi: मिसरी (hi) f (misrī), खण्ड (hi) m (khaṇḍ)
• Hungarian: cukorka (hu), édesség (hu)
• Icelandic: sælgæti n, nammi n
• Ido: bonbono (io)
• Indonesian: permen (id) , gula-gula (id)
• Ingrian: letenitsa, toomain
• Interlingua: bonbon
• Irish: milseán (ga) m
• Italian: caramella (it) f, confetto (it) m
• Japanese: キャンデー (ja) (kyandē), キャンディ (ja) (kyandi), お菓子 (ja) (おかし, okashi), 飴 (ja) (あめ, ame)
• Kazakh: кәмпит (kämpit)
• Khmer: ស្ករ (km) (skɑɑ)
• Korean: 캔디 (kaendi), 사탕(沙糖) (ko) (satang), 엿 (ko) (yeot)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نوقڵ (nuqill)

  Northern Kurdish: şêranî (ku), şîranî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: конфета (konfeta)
• Ladin: giaulon m (Sëlva), bigul m (Urtijëi)
• Lao: ເຂົ້າຫນົມອົມ (khao nom ʼom), ຂະຫນົມ (kha nom)
• Latin: cuppēdia n pl, bellāria n pl
• Latvian: saldums m, konfekte f
• Lithuanian: saldainis m
• Luxembourgish: Kamell (lb) f
• Macedonian: бонбо́на f (bonbóna)
• Malagasy: vatomamy (mg)
• Malay: gula-gula (ms)
• Malayalam: മിഠായി (ml) (miṭhāyi)
• Mari:

  Western Mari: кампеткӓ (kampetkä)

• Maricopa: ʼayuu mnyee
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: чихэр (mn) (čixer), амттан (mn) (amttan)

• Navajo: ałkʼésdisí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: godteri n pl

• O'odham: lulsi
• Ossetian: къафетт (k’afett)
• Pashto: مټايي f (maṭāyi), مېټايي m (meṭāyi)
• Persian: آبْنَبات (fa) (âbnabât), کانْفِت (kânfet) (rare), شیرینی (fa) (širini)
• Plautdietsch: Kend f
• Polish: cukierek (pl) m
• Portuguese: rebuçado (pt) m (Portugal), bombom (pt) m (Portugal), doce (pt) m (Brazil) ,bala (pt) f (Brazil), confeito (pt), docinho (pt) m
• Romanian: bomboană (ro) f
• Russian: конфе́та (ru) f (konféta), сласть (ru) f (slastʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: suiteas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бомбона f

  Roman: bombona (sh) f

• Silesian: bůmbůn m
• Slovak: cukrík (sk) m
• Slovene: sladkarija (sl) f, bonbon m, slaščica f
• Sotho: pompong
• Spanish: caramelo (es) m, dulce (es) m, confite (es) m, golosina (es) f, dragea f, cotufa (es) f, chuchería (es) f, chuche (es) m (Spain), lamín m (Spain), golmajería f (Spain), galguería (es) f
• Swedish: godis (sv) n (uncountable), karamell (sv) c
• Tagalog: kendi
• Tajik: конфет (tg) (konfet), ширинӣ (tg) (širini)
• Tatar: кәнфит (känfit), конфет (qonfet)
• Thai: ขนม (th) (kà-nǒm), ขนมหวาน (th) (kà-nǒm-wǎan), ลูกอม (th) (lûuk-om)
• Turkish: tatlı (tr), şeker (tr), bonbon (tr)
• Turkmen: süýji
• Ukrainian: цуке́рка (uk) f (cukérka), цуке́рок (uk) m (cukérok), конфе́та f (konféta), бонбо́н m (bonbón)
• Urdu: کَینْڈی f (kainḍī)
• Uyghur: ناۋات (nawat), كەمپۈت (kempüt), كەمپىت (kempit)
• Uzbek: shirinlik (uz), asal (uz), qand (uz), konfet (uz)
• Veps: kanfet
• Vietnamese: kẹo (vi)
• White Hmong: khob noom
• Yakut: кэмпиэт (kempiet)
• Yiddish: צוקערל n (tsukerl), קאָנפֿעקט m (konfekt), צוקערקע f (tsukerke)
• Zazaki: qende f
• Zhuang: dangz, dangznaed

Verb

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

1. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
2. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

   Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

3. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Translations

to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup

• Bulgarian: захаросвам (bg) (zaharosvam)
• Catalan: candir (ca)
• Finnish: kandeerata (fi)
• French: candir (fr), confire (fr)
• German: kandieren (de)
• Greek: καραμελώνω (el) (karamelóno)
• Hebrew: סיכר (sikér)
• Hungarian: kandíroz (hu)
• Italian: candire (it)
• Polish: kandyzować (pl) impf
• Swedish: kandera (sv)

Etymology 2

From Marathi खंडी (khaṇḍī), from Sanskrit खण्डन (khaṇḍana), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”).

Alternative forms

• candee, candie, candil, kandy

Noun

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

Translations

unit of weight

• German: Candy m
• Marathi: खंडी f (khaṇḍī)
• Portuguese: candil (pt) m
• Sanskrit: खण्डन (sa) (khaṇḍana)
• Tamil: கண்டி (ta) (kaṇṭi), பாரம் (ta) (pāram)
• Telugu: ఖండి (khaṇḍi), పుట్టి (te) (puṭṭi)

Anagrams

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