candy

Noun
  1. A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts (synset 107612936)
    is a type of: confection, sweet - a food rich in sugar
    subtypes:
    • candy bar - a candy shaped as a bar
    • carob bar - a bar of candy made with carob powder
    • hard candy - candy that is brittle
    • 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, mint candy - 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, rock candy - 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
    same as: confect
Verb
  1. Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze (synset 202200824)
    is a type of: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten - make sweeter in taste
    same as: glaze, sugarcoat

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