Definitions of confect
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make or construct
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make into a confection“This medicine is home- confected”
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synonyms:
comfit, confection
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type of:
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assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
create by putting components or members together
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assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
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a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
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synonyms:
candy
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types:
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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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butterscotch
a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar
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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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Easter egg
an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter
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barley candy, barley-sugar
a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar
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jawbreaker
a large round hard candy
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lemon drop
a hard candy with lemon flavor and a yellow color and (usually) the shape of a lemon
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sourball
round piece of tart hard candy
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peppermint patty
a patty flavored with peppermint
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peanut brittle
brittle containing peanuts
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chocolate fudge
fudge made with chocolate or cocoa
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divinity, divinity fudge
white creamy fudge made with egg whites
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panocha, panoche, penoche, penuche
fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts
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jujube
chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat)
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peppermint, peppermint candy
a candy flavored with peppermint oil
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molasses kiss
a candy kiss that resembles toffee
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meringue kiss
a kiss made of sugar and egg white and baked slowly
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chocolate kiss
a kiss that consists of a conical bite-sized piece of chocolate
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Scotch kiss
butterscotch candy kiss
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cachou
a scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco)
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cough drop, pastil, pastille, troche
a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat
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molasses taffy
taffy made of molasses
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chocolate egg
egg-shaped chocolate candy
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candy egg
egg-shaped candy
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type of:
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confection, sweet
a food rich in sugar
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