toffee
noun
a brittle or chewy brown candy made of sugar or molasses boiled down with butter, often mixed with nuts.
toffy
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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
"It comes from eating too much toffy," said Georgina.
From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope
"Frederick, if I arrange the toffy pull, do you suppose Mr. Jordan would come?"
From Tess of the Storm Country by Grace Miller White
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
Kate Masters was a jolly bouncing schoolgirl of fifteen, who was not too proud to eat toffy, and thought herself still a child.
From The American Senator by Anthony Trollope
