The difference between Candy and Sugar candy
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 sugar candy means candy, confectionery.
Candy is also verb with the meaning: to cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
check bellow for the other definitions of Candy and Sugar candy
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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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Sugar candy as a noun (US):
candy, confectionery
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Sugar candy as a noun:
crystals of sucrose