toffee
noun
- confections
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒfi/ / /ˈtɔfi/ / /ˈtɑfi/
noun
Etymology: An alteration of taffy.
- A type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.
- A small, individual piece of toffee.
“The tin is 6½ in. high and 4 in. in diameter, and has a domed snap-on lid with knob; it will hold 1 lb. of toffees.”
- Any kind of sweets; candy.
- Nonsense; rubbish.
“What a load of old toffee!”
verb
Etymology: An alteration of taffy.
- To coat in toffee.
“The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.”
“But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.”