sug|ar-can|dy

sug|ar-can|dy
1. candy made by boiling pure sugar and allowing it to crystallize.
2. Figurative. anything like sugar candy; something sweet, pleasant, or delicious: »

Lord John Russell, to whom a rap at the University was always sugar candy (Frederic E. Gretton).

sug|ar-can|dy «SHUG uhr KAN dee», adjective.
sugared; honeyed; excessively sweet: »

Figurative. sugar-candy hymns, Figurative. sugar-candy words of flattery.


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