The difference between Candy and Lollies
When used as nouns, candy means edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors, whereas lollies means a type of undergarment worn by cheerleaders under their skirts in place of panties.
Candy is also verb with the meaning: to cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
check bellow for the other definitions of Candy and Lollies
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Candy as a noun (uncountable, chiefly, North America):
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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Candy as a noun (countable, chiefly, North America):
A piece of confectionery of this kind.
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Candy as a noun (slang, chiefly [[US]]):
crack cocaine
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Candy as a verb (cooking):
To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
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Candy as a verb (intransitive):
To have sugar crystals form in or on.
Examples:
"Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time."
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Candy as a verb (intransitive):
To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
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Candy as a noun (obsolete):
A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
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Lollies as a noun:
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Lollies as a noun (dialectal, Rhode Island):
A type of undergarment worn by cheerleaders under their skirts in place of panties.