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toffee
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun toffee has 1 sense
- toffee(n = noun.food) brittle, toffy - caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets; Array is a kind of candy, confect
has particulars: peanut brittle
OXFORD DICTIONARY
toffee, n. (also toffy) (pl. toffees or toffies)
1 a kind of firm or hard sweet softening when sucked or chewed, made by boiling sugar, butter, etc.
2 Brit. a small piece of this.
1 a kind of firm or hard sweet softening when sucked or chewed, made by boiling sugar, butter, etc.
2 Brit. a small piece of this.
Idiom
for toffee sl. (prec. by can't etc.) (denoting incompetence) at all (they couldn't sing for toffee). toffee-apple an apple with a thin coating of toffee. toffee-nosed esp. Brit. sl. snobbish, pretentious.
Etymology
earlier TAFFY
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