sugar candy
noun
a confection made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens.
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sugar-candyadjectiveexcessively sweet; saccharine.
sugar candy
1 Americannoun
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a confection made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens.
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a person or thing that is pleasing.
sugar-candy
2
American
[shoog-er-kan-dee]
/ ˈʃʊg ərˌkæn di /
adjective
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excessively sweet; saccharine.
sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
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pertaining to or characteristic of someone or something that is pleasing.
sugar candy
British
noun
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Also called: rock candy. large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
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confectionery; sweets
Etymology
Origin of sugar candy
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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Millennial and Generation X households with children are the biggest fans of Valentine’s sugar candy, according to IRI, a global market research firm.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
"Our respect to other girls but the Mecca girl is sugar candy," she sings in the video while men and women dance in a café.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2020
“It’s like eating sugar candy — and about as exciting.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2014
Words suddenly enter, like sugar, candy, crimson, turban, and tulip, which have Arabic or Persian roots.
From National Geographic
Madam’s list of required delicacies was endless: gingerbread, pies of brandied peaches and preserved cherries and mincemeat, macaroons, blancmange, Jordan almonds, sugar candy, as many kinds of cake as there were fingers on both hands.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Scriptwriters Annette Wademant and Jean Aurel have turned out an original screenplay with a plot that is no more distinctive than a stick, but they have given it a frothy, spicy, sugar-candy coating.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both the Russian and the American economies are, avowedly and deliberately, carrot-and-stick economies; the British is rapidly becoming a sugar-candy economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The poor brutes had been rendered so perfectly shapeless by the agglomeration of icicles with which they were covered, that they looked as though they were preserved in sugar-candy.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis
Oil of almonds, spermaceti, white wax, and white sugar-candy, equal parts, form a good white lip-salve.
From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Hartley, Florence
Amongst the booty was a tub of sugar-candy, which, on the hue and cry being raised, the rogues were fain to abandon, together with the bedding of one of the escort.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
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