candy
noun /ˈkændi/
/ˈkændi/
[uncountable, countable] (plural candies)
(North American English)Idioms - sweet food made of sugar and/or chocolate, eaten between meals; a piece of this synonym sweet
- a box of candy
- a candy store
- a candy bar
- Who wants the last piece of candy?
- She had enough candies in her pocket for all the children.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- butterscotch
- chocolate
- licorice
- …
- eat
- unwrap
- hand out
- …
- wrapper
- bar
- aisle
- …
- like taking candy from a baby
Word Originmid 17th cent. (as a verb): the noun use is from late Middle English sugar-candy, from French sucre candi ‘crystallized sugar’, from Arabic sukkar ‘sugar’ + qandī ‘candied’, based on Sanskrit khaṇḍa ‘fragment’.
Idioms
be like taking candy from a baby
- (informal) used to emphasize how easy it is to do something
- I thought it was going to be difficult to get funding for the project, but in the end it was like taking candy from a baby.