| candy | | |
| n. (food) | 1. candy, confect | a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts. |
| ~ confection, sweet | a food rich in sugar. |
| ~ candy bar | a candy shaped as a bar. |
| ~ carob bar | a bar of candy made with carob powder. |
| ~ hard candy | candy that is brittle.; "you can break a tooth on that hard candy" |
| ~ brandyball | a British candy flavored with brandy. |
| ~ patty | round flat candy. |
| ~ bonbon | a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate. |
| ~ brittle, toffee, toffy | caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets. |
| ~ butterscotch | a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar. |
| ~ candy cane | a hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes). |
| ~ candy corn | a small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corn. |
| ~ caramel | firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk. |
| ~ candyfloss, cotton candy, spun sugar | a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature. |
| ~ dragee | sugar-coated nut or fruit piece. |
| ~ dragee | silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes. |
| ~ fondant | candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste. |
| ~ fudge | soft creamy candy. |
| ~ gumdrop | a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals. |
| ~ honey crisp | a crisp candy made with honey. |
| ~ mint candy, mint | a candy that is flavored with a mint oil. |
| ~ horehound | a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant. |
| ~ jelly bean, jelly egg | sugar-glazed jellied candy. |
| ~ candy kiss, kiss | any of several bite-sized candies. |
| ~ licorice, liquorice | a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant. |
| ~ life saver | a candy shaped like a small lifesaver. |
| ~ all-day sucker, lollipop, sucker | hard candy on a stick. |
| ~ lozenge | a small aromatic or medicated candy. |
| ~ marshmallow | spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar. |
| ~ marchpane, marzipan | almond paste and egg whites. |
| ~ nougat | nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste. |
| ~ nougat bar | a bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolate. |
| ~ nut bar | paste of nuts and sugar on a pastry base cut into bars. |
| ~ peanut bar | bar of peanuts in taffy. |
| ~ popcorn ball | popcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into balls. |
| ~ praline | cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans. |
| ~ rock candy | sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string. |
| ~ rock candy, rock | hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint). |
| ~ sugar candy | made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens. |
| ~ sugarplum | any of various small sugary candies. |
| ~ taffy | chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy. |
| ~ chocolate truffle, truffle | creamy chocolate candy. |
| ~ turkish delight | a jellied candy typically flavored with rose water. |
| ~ easter egg | an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter. |
| v. (perception) | 2. candy, glaze, sugarcoat | coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze. |
| ~ dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten | make sweeter in taste. |
| confection | | |
| n. (food) | 1. confection, sweet | a food rich in sugar. |
| ~ dainty, goody, kickshaw, treat, delicacy | something considered choice to eat. |
| ~ confectionery | candy and other sweets considered collectively.; "the business decided to concentrate on confectionery and soft drinks" |
| ~ confiture | preserved or candied fruit. |
| ~ sweetmeat | a sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry). |
| ~ candy, confect | a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts. |
| ~ hardbake | a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds. |
| ~ chewing gum, gum | a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing. |
| ~ candied apple, candy apple, caramel apple, taffy apple, toffee apple | an apple that is covered with a candy-like substance (usually caramelized sugar). |
| ~ centre, center | the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering. |
| ~ comfit | candy containing a fruit or nut. |
| ~ maraschino, maraschino cherry | cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur. |
| ~ nonpareil | colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies. |
| n. (act) | 2. concoction, confection | the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components. |
| ~ creating from raw materials | the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it. |
| v. (creation) | 3. comfit, confect, confection | make into a confection.; "This medicine is home-confected" |
| ~ assemble, put together, tack together, piece, set up, tack | create by putting components or members together.; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee" |
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