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confectionery
candy and other sweets considered collectively
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confiture
preserved or candied fruit
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sweetmeat
a sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry)
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candy, confect
a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
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hardbake
a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds
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chewing gum, gum
a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
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candied apple, candy apple, caramel apple, taffy apple, toffee apple
an apple that is covered with a candy-like substance (usually caramelized sugar)
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center, centre
the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
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comfit
candy containing a fruit or nut
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maraschino, maraschino cherry
cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur
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nonpareil
colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies
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candy bar
a candy shaped as a bar
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carob bar
a bar of candy made with carob powder
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hard candy
candy that is brittle
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brandyball
a British candy flavored with brandy
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patty
round flat candy
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bonbon
a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate
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brittle, toffee, toffy
caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
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gum ball
a ball of chewing gum with a coating of colored sugar
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bubble gum
a kind of chewing gum that can be blown into bubbles
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butterscotch
a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar
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candied fruit, crystallized fruit, succade
fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals
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candy cane
a hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes)
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candy corn
a small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corn
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caramel
firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk
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candyfloss, cotton candy, spun sugar
a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature
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dragee
sugar-coated nut or fruit piece
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dragee
silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes
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fondant
candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste
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fudge
soft creamy candy
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gumdrop
a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals
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honey crisp
a crisp candy made with honey
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mint, mint candy
a candy that is flavored with a mint oil
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horehound
a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant
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jelly bean, jelly egg
sugar-glazed jellied candy
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candy kiss, kiss
any of several bite-sized candies
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licorice, liquorice
a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant
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Life Saver
a candy shaped like a small lifesaver
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all-day sucker, lollipop, sucker
hard candy on a stick
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lozenge
a small aromatic or medicated candy
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marshmallow
spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar
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marchpane, marzipan
almond paste and egg whites
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nougat
nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
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nougat bar
a bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolate
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nut bar
paste of nuts and sugar on a pastry base cut into bars
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peanut bar
bar of peanuts in taffy
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popcorn ball
popcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into balls
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praline
cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans
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rock candy
sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string
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rock, rock candy
hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
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sugar candy
made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens
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sugarplum
any of various small sugary candies
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taffy
chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy
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chocolate truffle, truffle
creamy chocolate candy
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Turkish Delight
a jellied candy typically flavored with rose water
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conserve, conserves, preserve, preserves
fruit preserved by cooking with sugar
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Easter egg
an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter
