candy
Noun:
- A sweet food made primarily of sugar: "Candy" refers to a confection, often brightly colored or flavored, created by dissolving sugar in water or milk and then boiling it to a specific consistency. It is typically eaten as a treat or snack.
- A piece of such a confection: "Candy" can also refer to a single piece or a small quantity of this sweet food.
Verb:
- To cook or preserve by coating or saturating with sugar: The verb "to candy" means to impregnate or coat with sugar syrup, often through a slow cooking process, to create a crystallized or glazed preserve, such as candied fruit or nuts.
Noun: She offered me a piece of candy from the bowl.His favorite candy is chocolate-covered caramel.
Verb: They decided to candy the orange peels for the cake decoration.The recipe instructs you to candy the ginger before adding it to the mixture.
"Like taking candy from a baby": An idiom meaning something is extremely easy to do. Winning that argument was like taking candy from a baby.
"Eye candy": (Informal) A person or thing that is visually attractive but is often considered to have little substance or intellectual value. The film had great special effects, but the plot was weak—it was mostly just eye candy.
Candied (adjective): Preserved or coated with sugar. The dessert was topped with candied cherries.
Candy store (noun phrase): A shop that primarily sells candy and other sweets. The children were excited to visit the old-fashioned candy store.
- Noun: Sweet, confection, bonbon, treat.
- Verb: Glaze, crystallize, preserve (in sugar).
(Note: "Candy" is not commonly used to form standard phrasal verbs.)
"Hard candy": A type of candy that is solid and brittle, made from boiled sugar. She prefers hard candy like peppermints over chewy ones.
"Cotton candy": A spun-sugar confection that is light, fluffy, and often sold at fairs. The child's face was sticky with pink cotton candy.
- a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
- coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
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