Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hard, chewy candy made of brown sugar or molasses and butter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving Taffy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable a type of
confectionery made by boilingsugar (ortreacle , etc) withbutter ormilk , thencooling the mixture so that it becomes hard - noun countable a small,
individual piece of toffee
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The toffee is a bit of an accquired taste - some kids come back for more, some chuck it away and we find it days later gently deliquescing and looking remarkable like a dying slug.
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The toffee is a bit of an accquired taste - some kids come back for more, some chuck it away and we find it days later gently deliquescing and looking remarkable like a dying slug.
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Scatter strips of crystallized ginger and cumin toffee cashews over the plate.
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Just as frogs use glucose, Arctic brine shrimp and many cold-tolerant insects use a sugar called trehalose, which forms a syrup as thick as stretchy toffee, is even better at lowering freezing points and stopping dehydration than glycerol or glucose.
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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In Britain the word toffee now appears to be used to describe both forms.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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As an aside, the word toffee is comparatively new (19th century), and in Wales the sweet would have been known as cyflaith, ffanni, and most commonly taffi (taffy).
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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As an aside, the word toffee is comparatively new (19th century), and in Wales the sweet would have been known as cyflaith, ffanni, and most commonly taffi (taffy).
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In Britain the word toffee now appears to be used to describe both forms.
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There's sugar in toffee and in jam, and they're hot, leastways they're hot to be made.
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I wonder if using a tart type of apple and adding in toffee chips would be as amazing as my brain thinks it would be. jenn Oct 2 oh, i so know what i’m making tomorrow! thank you so much!!!!
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