candyass
‘a cowardly, timid, effeminate, or ineffectual man; a wimp, a sissy’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. candyass < candy ‘crystallized sugar’ + ass < O.F. çucre candi ‘sugar candy’ < Arab. qandi < Pers. qand ‘cane sugar’ < perhaps Dravidian (cf.: Tam. kantu ‘candy,’ kattu ‘to harden, condense’) < kand < Tamil kaṇṭu