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toffee

[ taw-fee, tof-ee ]

noun

  1. a brittle or chewy brown candy made of sugar or molasses boiled down with butter, often mixed with nuts.
  2. British. taffy.


toffee

/ ˈtɒfɪ /

noun

  1. a sweet made from sugar or treacle boiled with butter, nuts, etc
  2. for toffee informal.
    preceded by can't to be incompetent at a specified activity

    he can't sing for toffee

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of toffee1

First recorded in 1860–65; the earlier variants toughy, tuffy were first recorded in 1825–30 ; southern British dialect form of original northern British dialect taffy ( def ); further origin uncertain
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Word History and Origins

Origin of toffee1

C19: variant of earlier taffy
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Example Sentences

For the beer lover on your list, Red Bear Brewing has The Krampus Shuffle – Abbey Style Quad that has dark ale has notes of raisins, toffee, plum, vanilla, cinnamon, and clove.

Sticky toffee pudding is the warm, saucy British dessert you can make at homeThe next day, there would be dishes to do, wine glasses to polish and ingredients to put away.

Meanwhile younger, lighter colors evoke citrus and tree fruits, candy sugars and vanilla toffee.

So rich and delicious, so dark and layered with coffee and hazelnuts, toffee, orange peel, cigar box.

The former governor is so buttoned-down and toffee-nosed he belongs at Downton Abbey.

End with spiced honey cider ($11), sticky toffee pudding or both.

Because stout beers are made by roasting malt or barley, certain types have clear hints of coffee, toffee, and chocolate.

We were too apt to patronise scholarship winners, as though a scholarship was toffee given as a reward for virtue.

A residual product of this dish is a sort of hard-bake toffee, formed by the leakage of jam from the chupatties.

Her eyes, like a shallow Scotch brook, were laughing at him: like transparent toffee they were or burnt sugar or amber.

Limit your diet to water and crusts, and abstain from sweets, cakes, and toffee in any form.

No, not the very one—they've got that at the other place, and the piece of toffee the baby sucked.

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