All candy synonyms
can·dy
C c noun candy
- sweet — having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
- bonbon — a sweet
- confectionery — Confectionery is sweets and chocolates.
- jawbreaker — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- sweetmeat — a sweet delicacy, prepared with sugar, honey, or the like, as preserves, candy, or, formerly, cakes or pastry.
- confit — Confit is meat such as goose or duck which has been cooked and preserved in its own fat.
- hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
- confection — You can refer to a sweet food that someone has made as a confection.
verb candy
- caked — If something is caked with mud, blood, or dirt, it is covered with a thick dry layer of it.
- gelling — Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- starched — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- sugaring — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- firming — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- stiffen — to make stiff.
- caking — Present participle of cake.
- honied — containing, consisting of, or resembling honey: honeyed drinks.
- sweeten — to make sweet, as by adding sugar.
- jellied — containing or made, spread, or topped with jelly or syrup; jellied: jelly apples.
- candied — Food such as candied fruit has been covered with sugar or has been cooked in sugar syrup.
- gel — Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- sugar-coat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- tensing — stretched tight, as a cord, fiber, etc.; drawn taut; rigid.
- tensed — stretched tight, as a cord, fiber, etc.; drawn taut; rigid.
- sugared — covered, mixed, or sweetened with sugar.
- candy-coat — sugarcoat (def 2).