The difference between Candy and Lolly

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 lolly means a piece of hard candy on a stick.


Candy is also verb with the meaning: to cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

check bellow for the other definitions of Candy and Lolly

  1. 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.

  2. Candy as a noun (countable, chiefly, North America):

    A piece of confectionery of this kind.

  3. Candy as a noun (slang, chiefly [[US]]):

    crack cocaine

  1. Candy as a verb (cooking):

    To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

  2. Candy as a verb (intransitive):

    To have sugar crystals form in or on.

    Examples:

    "Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time."

  3. Candy as a verb (intransitive):

    To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

  1. 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.

  1. Lolly as a noun:

    A piece of hard candy on a stick; a lollipop.

  2. Lolly as a noun (UK, slang, uncountable):

    Money.

  3. Lolly as a noun (Australia, New Zealand):

    Any confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a sweet, a piece of candy.

  4. Lolly as a noun (archaic):

    A lump.

  1. Lolly as a noun (Canada):

    Snow or fine ice floating on water.

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