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CANDY, n. Used in combs. which are not found in St.Eng.

Combs.: 1. candybob = 4; known to Mry.² c.1873 and Abd. correspondents; "also sometimes applied to the candy itself" (Bnff.² 1938); 2. candy-broad sugar, candibrod, candybrod, †(1) "loaf or lump sugar" (Fif. 1825 Jam.², candibrod); (2) "sugarcandy" (Abd.¹⁹, Ags.¹, Fif.¹⁰ 1938; ne.Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B. Add., candybrod); 3. candy-glue, "treacle boiled to a consistency" (Abd. 1877 Jam.⁴); "candy made from treacle, etc., well boiled" (Sc. 1911 S.D.D.; Ags.¹⁷ 1938); 4. candyman, a hawker, a ragman; "these men generally give a kind of toffee, called candy, in exchange for rags, etc." (Uls. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gl. Ant. and Dwn.); known to Abd.², Fif.¹⁰, Slg.³ (for Edb.), Lnk.³, Gsw.¹, Kcb.⁹ 1938; 5. candy-rock, "candy in blocks or stalks" (Sc. 1911 S.D.D.; Abd.²², Fif.¹⁰ 1938).2. (1) Sc. 1736 Mrs. McLintock Mrs. McLintock's Receipts (1986) 4:
..., put in a lib. of Candy-broad Sugar, beat and searched.Sc. 1743 R. Maxwell Select Trans. Agric. 290:
Take a Quarter of an Ounce of Cinnamon . . .; infuse that in a Pint of Spirits, with three Ounces of Candy-broad Sugar. [Jam. says: "this term must have been imported, most probably with the article, from the Low Countries; as Belg. kandy is equivalent to E[ng]. candy (Fr. candir, to grow white after boiling, applied to sugar); and [Du.] brood, a loaf."]4. m.Sc. 1870 J. Nicholson Idylls o' Hame 55:
He'd hunt a' the hoose for a rag or a bane . . . To gi'e to the candyman — greedy wee Tam!Ayr. a.1893 J. M'Cartney in Anthology of Carrick (ed. Finlayson 1925) 266:
The Candyman did twice a day Treat this brave widow to her tay.