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Noun (1 meaning)

1. a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts.

candy, confect

confect is a type of:
types of confect:
  • Easter egg (noun) - an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter
  • Life Saver (noun) - a candy shaped like a small lifesaver
  • Turkish Delight (noun) - a jellied candy typically flavored with rose water
  • bonbon (noun) - a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate
  • brandyball (noun) - a British candy flavored with brandy
  • brittle, toffee, toffy (noun) - caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
  • butterscotch (noun) - a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar
  • candy bar (noun) - a candy shaped as a bar
  • candy cane (noun) - a hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes)
  • candy corn (noun) - a small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corn
  • caramel (noun) - firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk
  • carob bar (noun) - a bar of candy made with carob powder
  • cotton candy, spun sugar, candyfloss (noun) - a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature
  • dragee (noun) - sugar-coated nut or fruit piece
  • dragee (noun) - silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes
  • fondant (noun) - candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste
  • fudge (noun) - soft creamy candy
  • gumdrop (noun) - a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals
  • hard candy (noun) - candy that is brittle
  • honey crisp (noun) - a crisp candy made with honey
  • horehound (noun) - a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant
  • jelly bean, jelly egg (noun) - sugar-glazed jellied candy
  • kiss, candy kiss (noun) - any of several bite-sized candies
  • licorice, liquorice (noun) - a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant
  • lollipop, sucker, all-day sucker (noun) - hard candy on a stick
  • lozenge (noun) - a small aromatic or medicated candy
  • marshmallow (noun) - spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar
  • marzipan, marchpane (noun) - almond paste and egg whites
  • mint, mint candy (noun) - a candy that is flavored with a mint oil
  • nougat (noun) - nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
  • nougat bar (noun) - a bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolate
  • nut bar (noun) - paste of nuts and sugar on a pastry base cut into bars
  • patty (noun) - round flat candy
  • peanut bar (noun) - bar of peanuts in taffy
  • popcorn ball (noun) - popcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into balls
  • praline (noun) - cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans
  • rock candy (noun) - sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string
  • rock candy, rock (noun) - hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
  • sugar candy (noun) - made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens
  • sugarplum (noun) - any of various small sugary candies
  • taffy (noun) - chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy
  • truffle, chocolate truffle (noun) - creamy chocolate candy

Verb (2 meanings)

1. make or construct.

to confect

to confect is a way to:

2. make into a confection.

to confect, confection, comfit

Example:
  • “This medicine is home-confected”
to confect is a way to:
to confect is derivationally related to:
  • confection, concoction (noun) - the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components