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
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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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Lolly as a noun:
A piece of hard candy on a stick; a lollipop.
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Lolly as a noun (UK, slang, uncountable):
Money.
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Lolly as a noun (Australia, New Zealand):
Any confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a sweet, a piece of candy.
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Lolly as a noun (archaic):
A lump.
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Lolly as a noun (Canada):
Snow or fine ice floating on water.