Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| alcorza | a kind of sweet; icing. |
| blackball | in New Zealand, a hard-boiled sweet with black-and-white stripes. |
| bonbon | (Fr.) a sweet. |
| brickle | a kind of brittle candy; (adj.) brittle, easily broken: no comparative. |
| brittle | a kind of hard toffee. |
| bubblegum | a kind of chewing-gum. |
| butterscotch | a candy made from brown sugar, butter, corn syrup, and water. |
| cachou | a violet-scented sweet. [Malay kacu]. |
| candy | a sweet of sugar boiled and crystallized, or in America any confectionery; (verb) to coat and preserve with sugar. |
| candyfloss | a fluffy ball of spun sugar, coloured and flavoured, sold on the end of a stick. |
| caramel caromel | a dark brown substance produced by heating sugar; (verb) to coat with caramel > CARAMELLED, CARAMELLING. |
| carvy | caraway; a caraway seed, esp. one coated with sugar. |
| chewie chuddy | chewing-gum. |
| chicle | the coagulated latex of the SAPODILLA, and several related trees, which forms the basis of chewing-gum. [Amer. Sp. f. Nahuatl tzictli.] |
| choc | chocolate. |
| choccy | a chocolate; (adj.) of or like chocolate > CHOCCIER, CHOCCIEST. |
| chockie chocky | a chocolate > CHOCKIES; of or like chocolate > CHOCKIER, CHOCKIEST. |
| chocolate | a paste made of the ground seeds of Theobroma cacao (cocoa), with sugar and flour or similar material, usually hardened into slabs. |
| chocolaty | of or like chocolate > CHOCOLATIER, CHOCOLATIEST. |
| chuddy | see CHEWIE. |
| comfit confit | a dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection. |
| conche | to knead and mix chocolate during manufacture. |
| confetto | a bonbon > CONFETTI. |
| confiserie | a confectionery. |
| confit | see COMFIT. |
| confiture | a preparation of preserved fruit etc.; a confection. |
| cornball | a sweetened ball of popcorn; anything trite, banal, sentimental. |
| countline | of a confectionery bar, made as an individual item, e.g. a filled chocolate bar, rather than as moulded chocolate. |
| divinity | a fudge made of whipped egg whites, sugar, and nuts. |
| dragee | a sugar-coated sweetmeat. |
| fairyfloss | (Australian) candyfloss. |
| fondant | a soft sweet made with flavoured sugar and water. |
| fudge | a soft sweet made from butter, cream and sugar, often flavoured with vanilla, rum, etc; (verb) to patch up. |
| fudgy | resembling fudge > FUDGIER, FUDGIEST. |
| ganache | a creamy chocolate mixture. [Fr. ganache, jowl]. |
| gobstopper | a large sweet that is sucked. |
| gumball | a round piece of chewing gum. |
| gumdrop | a gelatinous type of sweet containing gum arabic. |
| gummi | a rubbery, flavoured candy. |
| gundy | a toffee made of treacle and spices. |
| halva halvah halavah | a sweetmeat, orig. Turkish, containing sesame seeds, honey, nuts and saffron. |
| hardbake | a sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. |
| humbug | a peppermint drop or the like. |
| jawbreaker | a kind of sweet very hard to chew. |
| jellybean | a bean-shaped sweet with a brightly coloured coating around a gelatinous filling. |
| jube jujube | a gelatinous chewy sweet. [Fr. jujube or LL. jujuba, from Gk. zizyphon]. |
| licorice liquorice | a confectionery made with an extract from the root of the liquorice plant. |
| lolly lollipop lollypop | a large sweet (esp. a boiled sweet), water-ice, or similar confection, on a stick. |
| lozenge | a small sweet, sometimes medicated, originally diamond-shaped. |
| lulibub | a lollipop. |
| marchpane | an old name for MARZIPAN. |
| marshmallow | a spongy, jellylike sweet. |
| marzipan | a confection of ground almonds, egg whites, and sugar. |
| mochi | a Japanese confection of rice flour and sweetened bean paste. |
| neapolitan | a small rectangular chocolate. |
| nougat | (a sweet made from) egg-white sweetened with sugar or honey and mixed with nuts and sometimes pieces of fruit. |
| nonpareil | a kind of confectionery. |
| nougatine | nougat covered with chocolate. |
| nutbar | a bar made from chopped nuts. |
| pandrop | a hard mint-flavoured sweet. |
| panocha panoche penoche penuche penuchi | a fudge-like candy. |
| peppermint | a sweet flavoured with an extract of the plant peppermint. |
| popcorn | maize or Indian corn, the kernels of which swell up and burst open with a small explosive sound when heated. |
| praline prawlin | a kind of chocolate. [From Marshal de Plessis-Praslin (1598-1675), French soldier, whose cook invented praline]. |
| pysanka | a hand-painted Ukrainian Easter egg > PYSANKY. |
| scroggin | a tramp's high-calorie sweetmeat. |
| snowball | a round white sweetmeat. |
| sourball | a sour candy. |
| stickjaw | a kind of toffee. |
| succade | a sweetmeat. |
| sucket | a sweetmeat; a dainty morsel. |
| sugarallie sugarally | (Scots) liquorice. |
| sugarplum | a kind of candy or sweetmeat made up in small balls or disks. |
| sunket | a dainty or delicacy. |
| swedger | (Scots) a sweet. |
| sweetmeat | any concoction made mainly or wholly with sugar. |
| tablet | in Scotland, a brittle confection of sugar, butter and condensed milk, made in slabs. |
| taffy toffee toffy | a hard-baked chewy sweet, made of sugar and butter; TOFFY can also be an adjective: like a toff, posh: TOFFIER, TOFFIEST. |
| truffle | a rich confection made with chocolate, butter, etc, usu. shaped into balls; (verb) to hunt or root for truffles (fungi). |
| vegelate | a kind of chocolate made of vegetable and cocoa fat. |