Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal Someone or something that is visually attractive or pleasing to look at.
Wiktionary
- n. US, idiomatic A very attractive person or persons, or the salient visible physical attributes of same.
- n. US, idiomatic Any object or sight with considerable visual appeal.
WordNet 3.0
- n. visual images that are pleasing to see but are intellectually undemanding
Etymologies
- Metaphor first recorded in 1984. Derivative from "nose candy"? (first used in 1930). (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eye candy’.
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eye phrases
eye appeal, eye-apple, eye-area, eye-baby, eye bank, eye-bar, eye-bath, eye-bedewing, eye-beguiling, eye-bewildering, eye-bewitching, eye-black and 320 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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EN - cool expressions
Trendy, funny or highly descriptive collocations
overstep the mark, open a big can of..., bad hair day, the icing on the ..., low-hanging fruit, ripple effect, big cheese, tackle an issue h..., root-and-branch r..., throw good money ..., open Pandora's box, place on the back... and 147 more...
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You are so GOOD LOOKING!
Words about looking good
a dish, dishy, snazzy, styling, looker, handsome, beautiful, delicious, dessert, yummy, tantalizing, hormone hunk and 55 more...
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EN-HU - fun and challenge to translate
Highly descriptive coinages (either in EN or HU) which are difficult to translate between the two languages. If - as a simultaneous interpreter - you get them right on the move, you deserve to be p...
backpfeifengesicht, a wise head on yo..., bad hair day, big cheese, blame shift, cherry picking, intellectual heav..., lack nunchi, schlimazl, cash cow, cherry boy, ass munch and 65 more...
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phrases (2 to 3 words)
Found Phrases I like. 2 or 3 words.
the majority of these will be placed into more categorically specific lists.
goto phrases (more than 3 words)
( _mark...catastrophic failure, gut-wrenching, programming paradigm, supermassive blac..., tangent space, renewable energy, design pattern, deceptively awesome, allegorical super..., emotional truth, ghosts of departe..., inflection point and 991 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1707 more...
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[codemonkey]
Words that describe Myself
scorn, codemonkey, hippopotomonstros..., geek, freak, infinity, poppycock, wiki, 23, twenty three, twitter, randominity and 43 more...
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To Eat, Or Not To Eat?
pie-dog, piebald, pie chart, piece of cake, piecemeal, nut and bolt, wingnut, beebread, toe jam, butterfly, Luxemburger, pi and 22 more...
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Fun Phrases & Idioms
dust up, wreak havoc, the willies, cash cow, average joe, drama queen, fancy pants, houston we have a..., in your face, just deserts, kangaroo court, quality time and 78 more...
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Sensible
bliss, tear, ennui, reiki, prana, water, after taste, animal magnetism, earworm, amuse-bouche, emotionality, stupefied and 15 more...
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Words i could use in my book
promotion, preferment, amuse, defence, oppose, rape, argument, protect, attack, sex, intercourse, sexual intercourse and 23 more...
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round 1
no rhyme or reason this time around
touché, douché, phrenology, crispy, eye candy, pyre, graffiti, faith, kundalini, orgasm, soul, prowess, convulsion of bliss
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SasuSaku's list
gloomy, morose, sulk, ear-kissing, sexual activity, sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex, attack, protect, oppose, argument and 27 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for eye candy.

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