candy-ass n.
1. a coward, a weakling, an over-sensitive person [candy-ass adj. (1)].
 | Spectrum (UC Santa Barbara) V:1 110: ‘Candy ass!’ someone yelled, ‘candy ass!’ Sergeant Morris did not restrain the shouting and more of the soldiers joined in. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | letter 19 Nov. in Proud Highway (1997) 416: The impression that writers are a race of finks, queers and candy asses. | |
| About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 204: The general public came to think of him as a candy-ass. | |
| (con. 1969) Dispatches 27: Well, big deal, candy ass [...] You were scared. | |
| Silent Terror 96: Are you husky? pardon my French, but this is no job for a candy-ass. | |
| Rivethead (1992) 5: The only reason he retired was his disdain for the new breed of autoworkers [...] He referred to them as ‘candy-asses’. | |
| Plainclothes Naked (2002) 270: It’s bullshit. Candy-ass this, candy-ass that [...] Two-time loser? Full-time loser’s more like it. | |
| Rabbit Factory (2007) 55: Corporate type, but not a candy ass. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Drawing Dead [ebook] Smoldering red-hot at this candyass. |
2. (US gay) an attractive young man, thus a term of abuse by non-gays [SAmE candy + sfx -ass sfx].
| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 229: On the East Coast my informants [...] report candy ass, cute buns. | |
| Rent Boy 84: Bobby used to be a regular boyfriend of that priest [...] one of those misguided youths with a big prong Father Candyass set up in a studio love nest. |