sweets

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other sweet things to eat CAKE, SUGAR
- a small piece of boiled sugar, chocolate, etc, that children like to eat: sweet, (AmE) candy (noun C/U)
Would you like a sweet? ◎ a packet/bag of sweets ◎ a sweet wrapper (= a piece of paper covering a sweet)
a piece of candy
- a hard sticky sweet made with boiled sugar and butter: toffee (noun C/U)
- a sweet (usually white or green) with the flavour of peppermint: peppermint, mint
- a coloured sweet made of boiled sugar which you usually suck: boiled sweet
- a sweet sticky substance that you chew but do not swallow: chewing gum (noun U)
- a type of hard sweet made in long sticks and usually sold at the seaside: rock (noun U)
a stick of rock
- chocolate which is light in colour and sweet: milk chocolate (noun U); chocolate which is darker in colour and more bitter: plain chocolate (noun U)
- when you eat a sweet, you can chew it (= break it up with your teeth before you swallow it), suck it (= hold it in your mouth and pull liquid out of it slowly) or lick it (= move your tongue across it)
Suck it slowly - don't chew it. ◎ She was happily licking her lollipop.
- the shop where you buy sweets: sweetshop (AmE candy store)
- the general word for all sweets, cakes and chocolate: confectionery (noun U)