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
Old-fashioned sweets were sold in it, and the place was long known as “Granny Bird's toffy shop.”
From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus
A boy has apples, toffy, twine and penknives in his pocket—a young man has a pipe instead.
From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess
They say I'm an impatient man, And yet I never shoot When, after breakfasting, I find Damp toffy in my boot!
From The Bay and Padie Book Kiddie Songs by Cyril Dobbs
There was also toffy that was sold by weight, of which Everton toffee was the chief favourite.
From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Robert Naylor
