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candied

candied

9 3.0
Covered in sugar so it lasts longer, like fruit or nuts
  • adjective
  • /ˈkændid/
translation icon : glaseado
  • For the holiday feast, my grandmother made candied pecans that everyone loved.
  • candied yams
  • candied ginger
  • candied oranges

Plus all the raw, organic, roasted, salted and candied nuts you can imagine.

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Examples

  • She brought stuffed chicken breasts and candied yams, and I took care of the rest.

    Blog text (8)
  • Rosebaby Blossom, these are the most delicious candied yams I have ever eaten!

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Too many of those candied doughnuts.

  • A woman customer asks for some of the honey bread, which has sweet candied oranges buried in it.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Molly Possum gave them candied apples.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Now you've got to be in the market for more of these candied yams.

  • I use real sweet potatoes instead of the candied ones in the can, bake, peel, and mash them.

    Blog text (24)
  • It's yams, candied yams and sweet potatoes.

  • Wish I had candied pecans for topping, but I'm sure it will be awesome as is.

    Blog text (14)
  • Collard greens and corn bread, some candied yams, a little potato salad, fried chicken, peach cobbler, few slices of ham.

Synonyms

sugar-coated
vscandied
3 2.5

Has sugar on the outside to make it sweet and not sticky

is the general term for food preserved or coated with sugar or syrup
sugared
vscandied
1 1.0

With sugar added to make it sweet

is specifically about preserving or coating with sugar rather than just sweetening
glacé
vscandied
8.8

Fruit or other food preserved by covering it with sugar

is the general term for food preserved with sugar not only in baking
crystallized
vscandied
  • US
5.1

Fruits kept in sugar with a hard shiny coating

is about preservation without stressing crystalline texture

Compounds

1 2.9

An apple covered in a hard layer of sugar and served on a stick

Fruit cooked in sugar syrup and coated in sugar for a sweet treat

Strips of citrus peel cooked in sugar until sweet and soft

How Sugary

crystallized
  • US
5.1
candied
9 3.0
glazed
1 3.4
sugared
1 1.0
unsweetened
7 3.0

Surface Forms

candied positive

Morphology

candied = candy (transparent) = candy + ed

Formed regularly from the verb 'candy' with the adjectival/past-participle suffix '-ed', meaning coated or preserved with sugar, which is directly predictable.

Etymology

Candied comes from candy, which comes from an old Persian word qand meaning 'sugar'. So, candied describes fruit or nuts that are coated or preserved with sugar.