Candy and Gum

Candy

Candy noun - A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts.

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Gum and candy are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Gum" with "Candy", this nouns are similar.

Nearby Words: candied, candying

Gum noun - Any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying.

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Candy and gum are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Candy" instead a noun "Gum".

old	old candy	old gum
special	special candy	special gum
normal	normal candy	normal gum
entire	entire candy	entire gum
Other adjectives: big, new, experimental, extra, sticky, exploding, favorite, flavored.

On the non-Angelica side of things, there's the Junk Food Kid, a toddler bully who was beaten when Tommy burst the humongous bubble gum bubble using a candy cane she tossed aside.

Source: Hoist By His Own Petard / Western Animation
Tastes Like Feet - Described the gum that came with a candy toy he did as a V-Builds tasted like plastic and hair (with a bit of sugar and maybe fruit flavor).

Source: Web Video / Internet Personality Vangelus
Wreck-It Ralph has Sugar Rush, a kart-racing game based entirely around this: rolling gumball boulders, candy-cane forests, bubble gum swamps, pits of NesquikSand, Laffy Taffy vines, etc.

Source: Level Ate

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