Candy

See also: candy

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• Candi

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈkændi/
• Rhymes: -ændi

Proper noun

Candy

1. A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.

Etymology 2

From Venetan and Latin Candia, from Ancient Greek Χάνδαξ (Khándax) or Χάνδακας (Khándakas), from Arabic رَبْض الخَنْدَق (rabḍ al-ḵandaq), name of the Cretan city of Heraklion under the Emirate of Crete.

Alternative forms

• Candia, Candie

Proper noun

Candy

1. (historical) The Mediterranean island of Crete.
   • 1567, Ovid, “The Eighth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:

     Assure thy selfe that as for me I never will agree
     That Candie Joves owne foster place (as long as I there raigne)
     Shall unto such a monstruous Wight a Harbrow place remaine.

   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     Orsino, this is that Antonio
     That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy;
     And this is he that did the Tiger board,
     When your young nephew Titus lost his leg:

   • c. 1619, John Ford (formerly attributed to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher), The Laws of Candy, Act I, Scene 2,^[1]

     […] if to renown

     Your honours through the world, to fix your names,

     Like Blazing stars admir’d, and fear’d by all

     That have but heard of Candy or a Cretan,

     Be to deserve the approvement of my man-hood,

     Then thus much have I done:

   • 1709, Aaron Hill, chapter 27, in A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire in All its Branches‎^[2], London, page 218:

     CRETE, or Candy, as at present call’d, was taken by the Turks from the Possession of the brave Venetians, who defended it some Years against a constant Siege, and made the Place a bloody Purchase to the Turkish Army:

Related terms

• Candian
• Candy oil

Etymology 3

From Portuguese Candea from Sinhalese, perhaps ultimately from a phrase meaning “the five counties/countries on the mountain.”

Alternative forms

• Candi, Candia, Kandy

Proper noun

Candy

1. (historical) The Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka; (by extension) the British colony of Ceylon on that island.
   • 1872 January 20, Punch:

     Mr. W. H. GREGORY, the accomplished Member for Galway, goes to Ceylon as Governor. […] A pleasant exile, and a safe return, are Mr. Punch’s sweet wishes to him who departeth for Candy.

2. (historical) The city of Kandy, the capital of that kingdom.
   • 1681, Robert Knox, chapter 2, in An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon‎^[3], London: R. Chiswell, page 5:

     The First is the City of Candy, so generally called by the Christians, probably from Conde, which in the Chingulays Language signifies Hills, for among them it is situated […]

Related terms

• Candian

Etymology 4

Proper noun

Candy

1. A surname.
   • 1963, H. E. Bates, Oh! To be in England:

     Suddenly, to his horror, Mr Candy found himself in what Ma would have called a terrible two-and-eight.

   • 1985 March, Crash, number 14, page 62:

     The phone was then handed over to the other perpetrating programmer of SPECTACLE who described himself as 'the other Simon' who talked me through some of the program's low spots while Robin Candy punched the buttons on the Spectrum.

Anagrams

• Dancy, dancy