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Candying

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can⋅dy

  [kan-dee] noun, plural -dies, verb, -died, -dy⋅ing.
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–noun
1. any of a variety of confections made with sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
2. a single piece of such a confection.
3. Slang. cocaine.
4. someone or something that is pleasing or pleasurable, usually in a superficial way (often used in combination): eye candy.
–verb (used with object)
5. to cook in sugar or syrup, as sweet potatoes or carrots.
6. to cook in heavy syrup until transparent, as fruit, fruit peel, or ginger.
7. to reduce (sugar, syrup, etc.) to a crystalline form, usually by boiling down.
8. to coat with sugar: to candy dates.
9. to make sweet, palatable, or agreeable.
–verb (used without object)
10. to become covered with sugar.
11. to crystallize into sugar.
Origin:
1225–75; ME candi, sugre candi candied sugar < MF sucre candi; candi ≪ Ar qandī < Pers qandi sugar < Skt khaṇḍakaḥ sugar candy

Related forms:
can⋅dy⋅like, adjective
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can·dy   (kān'dē)   
n.   pl. can·dies

  1. A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.

  2. A piece of such a confection.

v.   can·died, can·dy·ing, can·dies

v.   tr.

  1. To reduce to sugar crystals.

  2. To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup.

  3. To make pleasant or agreeable; sweeten.

v.   intr.

  1. To become crystallized into sugar.

  2. To become coated with sugar or syrup.


[Middle English candi, crystallized cane sugar, short for sugre-candi, translation of Old French sucre candi and Old Italian zucchero candi, both from Arabic sukkar qandīy : sukkar, sugar + qandīy, candied (from qand, cane sugar, probably from Dravidian kaṇṭu, lump).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
candy

  1. n.
    drugs in general. (Drugs. See also nose (candy).) : I gotta go get some candy from the candy man.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

candy 
1274, from O.Fr. sucre candi "sugar candy," from Arabic qandi, from Pers. qand "cane sugar," probably from Skt. khanda "piece (of sugar)," perhaps from Dravidian (cf. Tamil kantu "candy," kattu "to harden, condense"). Eye-candy is first recorded 1984, based on a metaphor also found in nose candy "cocaine" (1930). Candyass is from 1950s; candy-striper is 1960s, so called from design of her uniform.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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