sugar-candy

[ shoo g-er-kan-dee ]

/ ˈʃʊg ərˌkæn di /

adjective

excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.

pertaining to or characteristic of someone or something that is pleasing.

Words nearby sugar-candy

sugar soap, sugar spoon, sugar the pill, sugar tongs, sugar tree, sugar-candy, sugar-coat, sugar-cured, sugar-free, sugar-loaf, sugar-tit

Definition for sugar-candy (2 of 2)

sugar candy

noun

a confection made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens.

a person or thing that is pleasing.

Origin of sugar candy

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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Examples from the Web for sugar-candy

Linton lay on the settle, sole tenant, sucking a stick of sugar-candy, and pursuing my movements with apathetic eyes.
Wuthering Heights|Emily Bronte
This fairy was guarded by two lions, that could be pacified only by a cake made of millet, sugar-candy, and crocodiles' eggs.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1|The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
Sugar-candy from Bussorah and cloth, are the principal articles sold.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The|William Griffith
For lack of water, they will eat ice that is hard frozen as pleasantly as we will do sugar-candy, or other sugar.
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage|Richard Hakluyt

Then, if the wine wants rich flavor, add to twenty gallons, five pounds of sugar-candy.
Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million|Sarah Josepha Hale

British Dictionary definitions for sugar-candy

sugar candy

noun

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

mainly US confectionery; sweets

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