Gloria vs Candy - What's the difference?
gloria | candy |
. Popular during the first half of the 20th century.
* 1835 Jacobus Flax , , October 1835, page 291:
* 1898 , You Never Can Tell , Act II:
(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.
As a noun gloria
is glory.As a proper noun candy is
a pet form of the female given name candace or candice.gloria
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Miss Flax, the little thin sister, and Miss Gloria , the stout able-bodied sister, lifted up their hands and eyes in horror at the mere hint of a wet nurse.
- Crampton . - - - What's your name? I mean your pet name. They can't very well call you Sophronia.
- Gloria . Sophronia! My name is Gloria . I am always called by it.
- Crampton . Your name is Sophronia, girl: you were called after your aunt Sophronia, my sister: she gave you your first Bible with your name written in it.
- Gloria : Then my mother gave me a new name.
Anagrams
* ----candy
English
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.