barley-sugar barley sugar • barley water · · · Info · Definitions · Synonyms · Characters · · barley-sugar · · Text Common · · Latin · · Scripts 12 · · Length 5 · · Syllables Definitions · · · (noun) a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar. Synonyms: barley candy. · · Noun Definition 1 Synonyms · · · barley candy · · Synonym 1 Characters · · - hyphen-minus U+002D a latin small letter a U+0061 b latin small letter b U+0062 e latin small letter e U+0065 g latin small letter g U+0067 l latin small letter l U+006C r latin small letter r U+0072 s latin small letter s U+0073 u latin small letter u U+0075 y latin small letter y U+0079