dragée — meaning in English

English meaning

• candy noun Sweet confectionery made mainly from sugar, often flavored with chocolate, fruit, or nuts.
• pill noun A small solid tablet of medicine meant to be swallowed.
• slug noun A soft-bodied, shell-less land mollusk related to the snail.

Senses

dragée is used for these senses in English:

• candy (countable, chiefly, North America, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
• dragée A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
• pill (firearms, slang) A bullet (projectile).

candy — full definition

1. noun Sweet confectionery made mainly from sugar, often flavored with chocolate, fruit, or nuts.
2. verb To coat or cook something in sugar syrup until it hardens.
3. noun Slang for crack cocaine.

pill — full definition

1. noun A small solid tablet of medicine meant to be swallowed.
2. noun Short for "the pill" — an oral contraceptive.
3. noun Informally, an annoying or unpleasant person.

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