Candy vs. Lollies

Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

A piece of confectionery of this kind.

(slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine

(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

Example: ‘Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.’;

(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.

Example: ‘Those frosts that winter bringsWhich candy every green.’;

To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide variety of shapes, consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be applied to a single piece of such confection or to the substance of which it is composed.

Cocaine.

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

Candy, also called sweets (British English) or lollies (Australian English, New Zealand English), is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy.

A type of undergarment worn by cheerleaders under their skirts in place of panties.