Candify
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To candy. archaic, transitive
"[…] seven little pies—molasses pies, baked in saucers—each with a brown top and crisp candified edge, which tasted like toffy and lemon-peel, and all sorts of good things mixed up together."
- 2 To make sweet or saccharine at the expense of serious meaning. derogatory, figuratively, sometimes, transitive
"Jazz was not always an accepted music, and, of course, today we have the problem of remaining faithful to the cultural roots of jazz, not just candifying, Disneyfying the music."
Example
More examples"[…] seven little pies—molasses pies, baked in saucers—each with a brown top and crisp candified edge, which tasted like toffy and lemon-peel, and all sorts of good things mixed up together."
Etymology
From candy + -fy.
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