barley candy

1. 1.

   a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar

   Synonymsbarley-sugar

   Broaderhard candy

Questions about barley candy

What does barley candy mean?

barley candy means "a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar".

What is another word for barley candy?

Close synonyms include barley-sugar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barley candy a common word?

barley candy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.