sugar candy

¹

noun

1. a confection made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens.
2. a person or thing that is pleasing.

sugar-candy

²

[ shoog-er-kan-dee ]

adjective

1. excessively sweet; saccharine:

   sugar-candy stories in family magazines.

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

sugar candy

noun

1. Also calledrock candy large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
2. confectionery; sweets

Word History and Origins

Origin of sugar candy¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

“The easiest way to build the poll numbers would be to go kick the hell out of Trump and make it a two-person race. I think that’s sort of sugar candy. It’s a nice rush,” he said.

From Seattle Times

In one recipe, chunks of bread are added to a pot of buttermilk, followed by eggs, sweetened with sugar or sugar candy and flavoured with lime zest, and cooked on a stove top until the ingredients are reduced to a thick consistency and allowed to set.

From BBC

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

One of the challenges has the cash-strapped contestants on the show carving out the symbol etched into a brittle sugar candy called dalgona without cracking the whole piece or risk being shot by masked enforcers.

From Reuters

“We also make maple cream, maple sugar candy and granulated sugar, and that has all to do with the different temperatures that we boil that syrup to. The more we boil it, the more water leaves the liquid syrup and it makes other confectionaries.”

From Washington Times