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
On six different occasions she offered him soap, telling him it was toffy, and each time he bit of it generously and without suspicion.
From The Parts Men Play by Arthur Beverley Baxter
Mother," said Teola, changing the subject abruptly, "why can't we have a toffy pull.
From Tess of the Storm Country by Grace Miller White
"Gloriana," said he, "have you chewed up all that toffy in two days?"
From The Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce
It was but a year since the young Cornet, now so knowing a hand in Cribb's parlour, had a still lingering liking for toffy, and used to be birched at Eton.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
