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
Charley loves good ale and wine, And Charley loves good brandy, And Charley loves a pretty girl, As sweet as sugar-candy.
From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various
Four ounces of sweet almonds finely pounded, two ounces of white sugar-candy, dissolved in spring-water, and a quart of cream; mix all together.
From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury
At another place further on we found a shop kept by a Norwegian Yankee, and entered it to buy some sugar-candy, wherewith to appease our cariole-boy.
From Three in Norway by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck
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