toffee

or tof·fy

[taw-fee, tof-ee]

noun

taffy.

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Contemporary Examples of toffee

So rich and delicious, so dark and layered with coffee and hazelnuts, toffee, orange peel, cigar box.
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Jordan Salcito
June 15, 2014
Because stout beers are made by roasting malt or barley, certain types have clear hints of coffee, toffee, and chocolate.
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Stacey Slate
February 2, 2010

Historical Examples of toffee

Exploring expeditions were fitted out to find the edge of the toffee.
Oswald Bastable and Others
Edith Nesbit
The figs and dates and toffee were set out in the doll's dinner service.
New Treasure Seekers
E. (Edith) Nesbit
Meantime they both looked and tasted like toffee, and smelt like toffee too.
Katharine Frensham
Beatrice Harraden
And for toffee and shortcake there is not the like of her in the whole village of Edam.
Sweethearts at Home
S. R. Crockett
No, let me p-p-put the toffee in my pocket; it will console me for all the lost joys of life.
The Gadfly
E. L. Voynich

British Dictionary definitions for toffee

toffee

toffy

noun plural -fees or -fies

a sweet made from sugar or treacle boiled with butter, nuts, etc

for toffee (preceded by can't) informal to be incompetent at a specified activityhe can't sing for toffee

Word Origin for toffee

C19: variant of earlier taffy

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Word Origin and History for toffee

1825, tuffy, toughy, southern British dialectal variant of taffy. Modern spelling first recorded 1862.