to candy
- verb
- /ˈkændi/
- You might as well, candy.
Examples
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"He can candy anything," the old ladies said fiercely.
Fiction book (1997) -
- Oh, is not candy the girl?
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I candy-striped one summer.
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You're like a cold piece of toast, and I'm not gonna candy-coat things for you, because if you want candy-coated information, you...
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She decided to candy the fresh strawberries by coating them in sugar syrup.
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The chef will candy the orange peels, making them a delightful garnish for desserts.
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To preserve the cherries for the winter, he learned to candy them with a sweet glaze.
Synonyms
To cover a surface with a smooth shiny liquid that dries hard, for example on food or pottery
To add a sweet white substance from plants to food or drink to make it sweet
Cover food with a sweet sugar layer
Idioms
- Informal
Very excited and happy because there are many things to choose from
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A hard sweet stick with red and white stripes that tastes like mint and is used at Christmas
- US
A small triangular sweet with yellow, orange, and white layers often eaten at Halloween
- Slang
Attractive pictures or designs that please the eyes but give little useful information
- Archaic
A young volunteer, often a girl or young woman, who helps with non-medical tasks in a hospital
A small kitchen tool that measures sugar syrup temperature when making candy
How Sugary
Surface Forms
Etymology
Candy as a verb comes from the same old words for 'sugar', such as qand, and originally meant 'to coat or turn into sugar'. So to candy fruit or nuts is to cover them in sugar, which is exactly how we use the word today.