candy

Meanings

Noun

• Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
• A piece of confectionery of this kind.
• crack cocaine.
• An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
• A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Verb

• To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
• To have sugar crystals form in or on.
• To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Related

Similar words

• confectionery, sweets , lollies , sugar candy
• sweet , lolly
• maunee

Origin

• From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi, from Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي, from Arabic قَنْد, from Persian کند; likely from Sanskrit खण्ड, root खण्ड्, or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு.
• From Marathi खंडी, from Sanskrit खण्डन, from root खण्ड्.