CANDY
What does "CANDY" mean?
A sweet food made mainly from sugar, often flavored and shaped into pieces.
Meanings
- A confection made by boiling or crystallizing sugar, typically with added flavor or color. The kids traded handfuls of candy after trick-or-treating.
- To preserve or coat fruit or peel in sugar. She candied the orange peel for the holiday cake.
- Something superficially appealing or gratifying but of little substance. The movie was pure eye candy and not much else. figurative
Did you know?
- 'Candy' is a word that traveled the spice roads: it comes from the Sanskrit 'khanda', a piece of crystallized sugar, passing through Arabic 'qandi' and French before reaching English.
Word origin
From Old French 'sucre candi' ('crystallized sugar'), from Arabic 'qandi' ('candied'), ultimately from Sanskrit 'khanda' ('piece, fragment' of sugar).
Remember it
CANDY = 'Can-Dy' - the can of sweets you'd dye every color of the rainbow.
A little poem
A bright coat melts and leaves behind
a sweetness that was never kind.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why did the gumdrop get promoted? It was the sweetest piece in the whole roll.
What it teaches
What dissolves the fastest in your mouth rarely sticks anywhere that matters.
Quick facts
What does CANDY mean?
A sweet food made mainly from sugar, often flavored and shaped into pieces.
Is CANDY a valid word?
Yes — CANDY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CANDY?
CANDY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does CANDY come from?
From Old French 'sucre candi' ('crystallized sugar'), from Arabic 'qandi' ('candied'), ultimately from Sanskrit 'khanda' ('piece, fragment' of sugar).
What can CANDY teach us?
What dissolves the fastest in your mouth rarely sticks anywhere that matters.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.