Candy vs Confect - What's the difference?
candy | confect |
(uncountable, chiefly, US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
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(countable, chiefly, US) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
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(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
To have sugar crystals form in or on.
To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
(obsolete) a unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
* 1629 , , Travels in Persia
*:Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.
(obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
*1613 , , Brittania's Pastorals ,
*:Saffron confected in Cilicia,
(obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
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As a proper noun candy
is a pet form of the female given name candace or candice.As a verb confect is
to make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.As a noun confect is
(obsolete) a rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.candy
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) sucre candi ("candy sugar"), from (etyl) .Noun
Synonyms
* (confection) confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (US) * (piece of candy) sweet (British), lolly (Australia)Derived terms
* arm candy * bee candy * brain candy * candy ass * candy cane * candy floss * candy man * candy store * candy stripe * candy striper * cotton candy * ear candy * eye candy * hard candy * like taking candy from a baby * nose candy * rock candy * sugar candyVerb
- Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* candeeNoun
(candy)Synonyms
* mauneeAnagrams
*confect
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Verb
(en verb)- The woman confected a home-remedy for the traveler's illness .
- The young bride's friends confected a dress from odds and ends of fabric.
- [My joys] are still confected with some fears.'' -- ''Stirling
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Noun
(en noun)- At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects .
- She made salves and eyewaters, powders and confects , cordials and persico, orangeflower water and cherry brandy, each in its due season, and all of the best.