Also 7 -candid. [f. SUGAR-CANDY + -ED2.]
1. Coated with (fine white) sugar; hence, white as if candied over with sugar.
1592. Nashe, P. Penilesse, Wks. 1904, I. 180. Their cheeks suger-candied and cherry blusht so sweetly.
1673. W. H[ickes], Lond. Drollery, 44. Thy lips are white as Tallow, never man did Buss sweeter things, sure they’r Sugar-candid.
2. fig. Sweet, sugared, honeyed. (Cf. CANDIED 3.)
In recent use only with pun on candid.
1650. A. B., Mutatus Polemo, 23. We … accosted them with the most prestigious sugar-candid words we could invent.
1893. R. Wallace, in Daily News, 14 July, 2/7. Governments had generally two classes of friends, the candid and the sugar-candied. (Loud laughter.)
