A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.
Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
A small amount of something good to eat.
Any small, usually free, item.
That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.
An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”)
Used to indicate pleasure or delight.