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▪ I. † sugar-candied, n. Obs. rare.
Perverted form of sugar-candy.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. Induct., I would thou hadst some sugar-candied, to sweeten thy mouth.
▪ II. sugar-candied, a.
Also 7 -candid.
[f. sugar-candy + -ed2.]
1. Coated with (fine white) sugar; hence, white as if candied over with sugar.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse Wks. 1904 I. 180 Their cheeks suger-candied and cherry blusht so sweetly. 1673W. H[ickes] Lond. Drollery 44 Thy lips are white as Tallow, never man did Buss sweeter things, sure they'r Sugar-candid.
2. fig. Sweet, sugared, honeyed. (Cf. candied 3.)
In recent use only with pun on candid.
1650A. B. Mutatus Polemo 23 We..accosted them with the most prestigious sugar-candid words we could invent. 1893R. Wallace in Daily News 14 July 2/7 Governments had generally two classes of friends, the candid and the sugar-candied. (Loud laughter.) |