sugar candy
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈʃʌɡər ˈkændi/
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caramelo
- The children were excited to see the colorful sugar candy displayed at the festival.
- white sugar candy
We are going to put sugar candy balls on here.
- We are going to put sugar candy balls on here.
Examples
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He would come here when I was a child and bring me maple sugar candy.
Fiction book (1994) -
He who has tasted sugar candy takes no further pleasure in molasses.
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We are going to put sugar candy balls on here.
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So what we make now, sugar candy, we preserve it.
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She is made out of sweet sugar candy.
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While he was sitting in deep and solitary contemplation, an old man appeared before him and put some sugar candy in Dikshita's 1975.
Academic text (2001) -
She enjoyed a piece of sugar candy after dinner as a sweet treat.
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He loved to share his homemade sugar candy with friends during the holidays.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small sweet made from sugar, often with chocolate or nuts
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1.0
A small sugary food eaten after a meal
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3.7
Sweet food like candy or a small cake
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1.0
A small sweet made from sugar that you suck rather than chew
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2.2
A hard sweet made of large clear sugar crystals on a stick
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'sugar' + 'candy' — a type of candy made from sugar — so a learner who knows both words can infer the referent. This noun+noun compound follows a common and cross-linguistically familiar pattern, making the sense immediately predictable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Sugar candy comes from the old way of making sweet treats: cooks boiled sugar with water and let it cool until it formed hard, clear crystals. Because the pieces were pure sugar and people used the word candy for sweets, they called them sugar candy, so the name means 'a hard sweet'.