candy corn
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- noun
- /ˈkændi kɔrn/
- US
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dulce de maíz
- There is also something about candy corn and candy pumpkins that seems to make Halloween.
- candy corn at Halloween
- eating candy corn
- bag of candy corn
It kind of smells like candy corn and like it has like a sweet.
- It kind of smells like candy corn and like it has like a sweet.
- It smells like melted candy corn and caramel.
- But I feel like, look, listen, if there's nothing else there, I'll have a candy corn.
Examples
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Every fall, around Halloween, we all looked forward to the first candy corn harvest of the season.
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I made candy corn ice cream last night. You need to try it!
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Get some candy corn, or get a drink.
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Thanks for the candy corn.
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The world would be a much more peaceful place if everyone had a bag of candy corn.
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My favorite Halloween candy to buy is candy corn.
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And when we finished sorting, we traded a Milky Way for a Three Musketeers, a Sky Bar for some candy corn, and this would continue until our father made us go to bed.
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We also filled little treat bags with candy corn, included some Halloween-inspired ghost Peeps, and a tube of Halloween-colored mini M&Ms.
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During Halloween, children often receive a lot of candy corn in their trick-or-treat bags.
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At the fall festival, I bought a bag of candy corn to share with my friends.
Synonyms
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A small sweet made from sugar, often with chocolate or nuts
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A hard sweet made by boiling sugar and letting it cool
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'candy corn' transparently combines 'candy' (a sweet) with 'corn' (the kernel), so a learner who knows both words can reasonably infer it is a type of sweet related to corn in form or origin — typically a small candy shaped like a kernel. While the specific cultural association with Halloween and exact appearance/colors are extra information, the basic referent (a corn-shaped candy) is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Candy corn was made in the late 1800s to look like a small piece of corn: three colored layers of white, orange, and yellow form a little triangle that looks like a kernel. Because the name joins candy and corn and it was sold at harvest time and at 'Halloween', the candy's shape and name now mean a sweet tied to that season.