toffee
noun
a brittle or chewy brown candy made of sugar or molasses boiled down with butter, often mixed with nuts.
toffy
-
a variation of
toffee.
Example Sentences
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There's a photograph of Cameron with Boris Johnson, London's patrician mayor, and other Bullingdon members in their toffy getup, taken a year before the Cliveden trip and widely reprinted in the British press last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Gloriana," said he, "have you chewed up all that toffy in two days?"
From The Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce
Tastes like cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffy and hot buttered toast—all together.
From Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg
There was brisk traffic in toffy, and gray peas and monkey-nuts, and the crowd was swollen by anxious parents seeing tiny or truant offspring safe within the school-gates.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
Here’s our pocket-knives, and some handkerchiefs, and what toffy John has left, and a few little things.
From The Young Alaskans on the Trail by Emerson Hough
