Definition of toffee in English:

toffee

noun ˈtɒfi

mass noun

1A kind of firm or hard sweet which softens when sucked or chewed, made by boiling together sugar and butter, often with other ingredients or flavourings added.
a pound of walnut toffee
Example sentencesExamples
- To begin with, it was all puddings and cakes and sweets, and I would make fudge, toffee, nougat.
- They are chocolate sweets with chewy toffee in the middle.
- You can't buy chocolates, or toffee; flowers cost so much that I have to pick leaves instead.
- A caramel apple double-dipped in white chocolate and crunchy toffee is the stuff of dreams.
- She put caramel, toffee, and rich chocolate frosting into one brownie!
- Refrigerate until the toffee is firm, about one hour.
- But it's heavenly with chocolate pudding, adding flavours of dates, raisins and burnt toffee.
- By the age of 10 I was boiling up fudge, toffee and Turkish delight with, it seemed to me, only the merest hint of adult supervision.
- The ramekin dish was topped with slices of banana and strawberry, but underneath the fruit someone had been a little heavy-handed with the blowtorch, and what should have been crispy toffee was actually burnt sugar.
- Generations of Scots have been weaned on the snack, which is actually a stack of wafers sandwiched together with toffee and coated in chocolate.
- If you are going to make your own sugar syrup, do any hot sugar work or make toffee, just remember that it gets fearsomely hot.
- Apart from sharing Ann's selection, I settled for a piece of toffee and coffee cake.
- Traditional bonfire treats including black peas, baked potatoes, parkin, toffee apples and treacle toffee were also on offer.
- You'll be rewarded with deep flavor and candy that sets up perfectly every time, as in the case of our classic buttery almond toffee and our pretty cashew brittle.
- My one true passion at the time was to devour anything with abnormally large amounts of sugar, chocolate or toffee.
- Then, at age eighteen, I thought I had at long last found the final frontier in a now-crunchy, now-melty mouthful of coffee-walnut toffee.
- The banoffee pie featured dry, stick-to-your-teeth pastry without any flavour of butter and runny toffee which tasted like barely-caramelised condensed milk.
- It was a combination of biscuit, toffee and chocolate with an icing decoration.
- As confectionery, they differ depending on the temperature at which they are cooked: fudge is the softest, toffee firmer and caramel almost brittle.
- They are served with arequipe, milk cooked with sugar until it resembles toffee.
Synonyms
piece of confectionery, chocolate, bonbon, fondant
1. 1.1count noun A small shaped piece of toffee.
  Example sentencesExamples
  There were toffees and peppermint under my pillow this morning.
  Following recent takeovers, it has now extended its range to include wine gums, fruit pastilles, jelly beans and traditional boiled sweets, toffees and fudge.
  Then, take one bite of apple and simultaneously pop a toffee into your mouth.
  A few children won prizes, and most others received freebies such as markers, toffees, and labels.
  It had taken four hours to get hundreds of bars of chocolate, toffees and 600 packets of biscuits through a checkout.
  Place the milk and toffees together in a saucepan and warm over a low heat, stirring, until smooth.
  The lychees are the modern eater's answer to a bag of toffees.
  I also got some advocaat toffees and I like those too.
  Combine the toffees and milk in a small heavy saucepan and cook over a low heat, stirring often, until the toffees melt.
  In our tablet we use both fresh and condensed milk, and we also rely on condensed milk for making our toffees and candies.
  Avoid or restrict sugary foods like chocolates, toffees, desserts etc.
  When he was at school he would sell toffees that his mother had made as well.
  When we left, Nan gave me a whole bag of grandad's golden toffees.
  The girl threw the toffees back at him and went to find her mother in a distressed state, the court was told.
  You can find it in sodas, candies, toffees, even ice cream and chewing gum, but don't expect to get much of a dose.
  She leads me into Chinese sweet shops where, alongside usual offerings of chocolates and toffees, there are buckets of candied dried shrimps and sugared squid.
  I'm not madly keen on toffees, but anything with violets or ginger is more likely to end up in the bin.
  He shrugged, quickly, and stuffed the toffees back into his pocket.
  But we must have looked so crestfallen that she smiled and gave us a toffee each.
  But once, trying to answer a question thrown at him, he choked and spluttered on a treacle toffee.
2British dated, informal Nonsense; rubbish.
please don't expect me to fall for this load of old toffee
Example sentencesExamples
- There's a lot of old toffee written and spoken about their almost torturous recording process, their suffering for their art and their shared obsession with getting everything aurally just so.
Synonyms
nonsense, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap, blarney, blather, blether, moonshine

Phrases

not be able to do something for toffee

informal Be totally incompetent at doing something.
Jill said I couldn't sing for toffee

Origin

Early 19th century: alteration of taffy.

toff from mid 19th century:
This is perhaps an alteration of tuft, once a term for titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge, who wore a gold tassel on their caps—social climbers and toadies were called tuft-hunters from the mid 18th century. The associations of the word may have influenced toffee-nosed or ‘snobbish’, which was originally military slang. Toffee seems to have been a desirable commodity to soldiers during the First World War— not be able to do something for toffee, or be totally incompetent at it, is first recorded in 1914 in the mouth of a British ‘Tommy’. Toffee (early 19th century) is an alteration of taffy (early 19th century), now mainly used in North America for a sweet resembling toffee. The Taffy that is a name for a Welshman is quite different, representing a supposed Welsh pronunciation of the name David or Dafydd.

Rhymes

coffee

Definition of toffee in US English:

toffee

noun

1A kind of firm or hard candy that softens when sucked or chewed, made by boiling together sugar and butter, often with other ingredients or flavorings added.
Example sentencesExamples
- Generations of Scots have been weaned on the snack, which is actually a stack of wafers sandwiched together with toffee and coated in chocolate.
- My one true passion at the time was to devour anything with abnormally large amounts of sugar, chocolate or toffee.
- As confectionery, they differ depending on the temperature at which they are cooked: fudge is the softest, toffee firmer and caramel almost brittle.
- You'll be rewarded with deep flavor and candy that sets up perfectly every time, as in the case of our classic buttery almond toffee and our pretty cashew brittle.
- But it's heavenly with chocolate pudding, adding flavours of dates, raisins and burnt toffee.
- It was a combination of biscuit, toffee and chocolate with an icing decoration.
- Traditional bonfire treats including black peas, baked potatoes, parkin, toffee apples and treacle toffee were also on offer.
- Refrigerate until the toffee is firm, about one hour.
- A caramel apple double-dipped in white chocolate and crunchy toffee is the stuff of dreams.
- The ramekin dish was topped with slices of banana and strawberry, but underneath the fruit someone had been a little heavy-handed with the blowtorch, and what should have been crispy toffee was actually burnt sugar.
- She put caramel, toffee, and rich chocolate frosting into one brownie!
- They are chocolate sweets with chewy toffee in the middle.
- To begin with, it was all puddings and cakes and sweets, and I would make fudge, toffee, nougat.
- Then, at age eighteen, I thought I had at long last found the final frontier in a now-crunchy, now-melty mouthful of coffee-walnut toffee.
- If you are going to make your own sugar syrup, do any hot sugar work or make toffee, just remember that it gets fearsomely hot.
- They are served with arequipe, milk cooked with sugar until it resembles toffee.
- The banoffee pie featured dry, stick-to-your-teeth pastry without any flavour of butter and runny toffee which tasted like barely-caramelised condensed milk.
- You can't buy chocolates, or toffee; flowers cost so much that I have to pick leaves instead.
- Apart from sharing Ann's selection, I settled for a piece of toffee and coffee cake.
- By the age of 10 I was boiling up fudge, toffee and Turkish delight with, it seemed to me, only the merest hint of adult supervision.
Synonyms
piece of confectionery, chocolate, bonbon, fondant
1. 1.1 A small shaped piece of toffee candy.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then, take one bite of apple and simultaneously pop a toffee into your mouth.
  I'm not madly keen on toffees, but anything with violets or ginger is more likely to end up in the bin.
  There were toffees and peppermint under my pillow this morning.
  A few children won prizes, and most others received freebies such as markers, toffees, and labels.
  Following recent takeovers, it has now extended its range to include wine gums, fruit pastilles, jelly beans and traditional boiled sweets, toffees and fudge.
  When we left, Nan gave me a whole bag of grandad's golden toffees.
  But once, trying to answer a question thrown at him, he choked and spluttered on a treacle toffee.
  She leads me into Chinese sweet shops where, alongside usual offerings of chocolates and toffees, there are buckets of candied dried shrimps and sugared squid.
  You can find it in sodas, candies, toffees, even ice cream and chewing gum, but don't expect to get much of a dose.
  In our tablet we use both fresh and condensed milk, and we also rely on condensed milk for making our toffees and candies.
  The lychees are the modern eater's answer to a bag of toffees.
  When he was at school he would sell toffees that his mother had made as well.
  The girl threw the toffees back at him and went to find her mother in a distressed state, the court was told.
  Place the milk and toffees together in a saucepan and warm over a low heat, stirring, until smooth.
  Avoid or restrict sugary foods like chocolates, toffees, desserts etc.
  But we must have looked so crestfallen that she smiled and gave us a toffee each.
  It had taken four hours to get hundreds of bars of chocolate, toffees and 600 packets of biscuits through a checkout.
  He shrugged, quickly, and stuffed the toffees back into his pocket.
  Combine the toffees and milk in a small heavy saucepan and cook over a low heat, stirring often, until the toffees melt.
  I also got some advocaat toffees and I like those too.

Origin

Early 19th century: alteration of taffy.

单词	toffee
释义	Definition of toffee in English: toffee noun ˈtɒfi mass noun 1A kind of firm or hard sweet which softens when sucked or chewed, made by boiling together sugar and butter, often with other ingredients or flavourings added. a pound of walnut toffee Example sentencesExamples To begin with, it was all puddings and cakes and sweets, and I would make fudge, toffee, nougat. They are chocolate sweets with chewy toffee in the middle. You can't buy chocolates, or toffee; flowers cost so much that I have to pick leaves instead. A caramel apple double-dipped in white chocolate and crunchy toffee is the stuff of dreams. She put caramel, toffee, and rich chocolate frosting into one brownie! Refrigerate until the toffee is firm, about one hour. But it's heavenly with chocolate pudding, adding flavours of dates, raisins and burnt toffee. By the age of 10 I was boiling up fudge, toffee and Turkish delight with, it seemed to me, only the merest hint of adult supervision. The ramekin dish was topped with slices of banana and strawberry, but underneath the fruit someone had been a little heavy-handed with the blowtorch, and what should have been crispy toffee was actually burnt sugar. Generations of Scots have been weaned on the snack, which is actually a stack of wafers sandwiched together with toffee and coated in chocolate. If you are going to make your own sugar syrup, do any hot sugar work or make toffee, just remember that it gets fearsomely hot. Apart from sharing Ann's selection, I settled for a piece of toffee and coffee cake. Traditional bonfire treats including black peas, baked potatoes, parkin, toffee apples and treacle toffee were also on offer. You'll be rewarded with deep flavor and candy that sets up perfectly every time, as in the case of our classic buttery almond toffee and our pretty cashew brittle. My one true passion at the time was to devour anything with abnormally large amounts of sugar, chocolate or toffee. Then, at age eighteen, I thought I had at long last found the final frontier in a now-crunchy, now-melty mouthful of coffee-walnut toffee. The banoffee pie featured dry, stick-to-your-teeth pastry without any flavour of butter and runny toffee which tasted like barely-caramelised condensed milk. It was a combination of biscuit, toffee and chocolate with an icing decoration. As confectionery, they differ depending on the temperature at which they are cooked: fudge is the softest, toffee firmer and caramel almost brittle. They are served with arequipe, milk cooked with sugar until it resembles toffee. Synonyms piece of confectionery, chocolate, bonbon, fondant 1.1count noun A small shaped piece of toffee. Example sentencesExamples There were toffees and peppermint under my pillow this morning. Following recent takeovers, it has now extended its range to include wine gums, fruit pastilles, jelly beans and traditional boiled sweets, toffees and fudge. Then, take one bite of apple and simultaneously pop a toffee into your mouth. A few children won prizes, and most others received freebies such as markers, toffees, and labels. It had taken four hours to get hundreds of bars of chocolate, toffees and 600 packets of biscuits through a checkout. Place the milk and toffees together in a saucepan and warm over a low heat, stirring, until smooth. The lychees are the modern eater's answer to a bag of toffees. I also got some advocaat toffees and I like those too. Combine the toffees and milk in a small heavy saucepan and cook over a low heat, stirring often, until the toffees melt. In our tablet we use both fresh and condensed milk, and we also rely on condensed milk for making our toffees and candies. Avoid or restrict sugary foods like chocolates, toffees, desserts etc. When he was at school he would sell toffees that his mother had made as well. When we left, Nan gave me a whole bag of grandad's golden toffees. The girl threw the toffees back at him and went to find her mother in a distressed state, the court was told. You can find it in sodas, candies, toffees, even ice cream and chewing gum, but don't expect to get much of a dose. She leads me into Chinese sweet shops where, alongside usual offerings of chocolates and toffees, there are buckets of candied dried shrimps and sugared squid. I'm not madly keen on toffees, but anything with violets or ginger is more likely to end up in the bin. He shrugged, quickly, and stuffed the toffees back into his pocket. But we must have looked so crestfallen that she smiled and gave us a toffee each. But once, trying to answer a question thrown at him, he choked and spluttered on a treacle toffee. 2British dated, informal Nonsense; rubbish. please don't expect me to fall for this load of old toffee Example sentencesExamples There's a lot of old toffee written and spoken about their almost torturous recording process, their suffering for their art and their shared obsession with getting everything aurally just so. Synonyms nonsense, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap, blarney, blather, blether, moonshine Phrases not be able to do something for toffee informal Be totally incompetent at doing something. Jill said I couldn't sing for toffee Origin Early 19th century: alteration of taffy. toff from mid 19th century: This is perhaps an alteration of tuft, once a term for titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge, who wore a gold tassel on their caps—social climbers and toadies were called tuft-hunters from the mid 18th century. The associations of the word may have influenced toffee-nosed or ‘snobbish’, which was originally military slang. Toffee seems to have been a desirable commodity to soldiers during the First World War— not be able to do something for toffee, or be totally incompetent at it, is first recorded in 1914 in the mouth of a British ‘Tommy’. Toffee (early 19th century) is an alteration of taffy (early 19th century), now mainly used in North America for a sweet resembling toffee. The Taffy that is a name for a Welshman is quite different, representing a supposed Welsh pronunciation of the name David or Dafydd. Rhymes coffee noun.1 phr. Definition of toffee in US English: toffee noun 1A kind of firm or hard candy that softens when sucked or chewed, made by boiling together sugar and butter, often with other ingredients or flavorings added. Example sentencesExamples Generations of Scots have been weaned on the snack, which is actually a stack of wafers sandwiched together with toffee and coated in chocolate. My one true passion at the time was to devour anything with abnormally large amounts of sugar, chocolate or toffee. As confectionery, they differ depending on the temperature at which they are cooked: fudge is the softest, toffee firmer and caramel almost brittle. You'll be rewarded with deep flavor and candy that sets up perfectly every time, as in the case of our classic buttery almond toffee and our pretty cashew brittle. But it's heavenly with chocolate pudding, adding flavours of dates, raisins and burnt toffee. It was a combination of biscuit, toffee and chocolate with an icing decoration. Traditional bonfire treats including black peas, baked potatoes, parkin, toffee apples and treacle toffee were also on offer. Refrigerate until the toffee is firm, about one hour. A caramel apple double-dipped in white chocolate and crunchy toffee is the stuff of dreams. The ramekin dish was topped with slices of banana and strawberry, but underneath the fruit someone had been a little heavy-handed with the blowtorch, and what should have been crispy toffee was actually burnt sugar. She put caramel, toffee, and rich chocolate frosting into one brownie! They are chocolate sweets with chewy toffee in the middle. To begin with, it was all puddings and cakes and sweets, and I would make fudge, toffee, nougat. Then, at age eighteen, I thought I had at long last found the final frontier in a now-crunchy, now-melty mouthful of coffee-walnut toffee. If you are going to make your own sugar syrup, do any hot sugar work or make toffee, just remember that it gets fearsomely hot. They are served with arequipe, milk cooked with sugar until it resembles toffee. The banoffee pie featured dry, stick-to-your-teeth pastry without any flavour of butter and runny toffee which tasted like barely-caramelised condensed milk. You can't buy chocolates, or toffee; flowers cost so much that I have to pick leaves instead. Apart from sharing Ann's selection, I settled for a piece of toffee and coffee cake. By the age of 10 I was boiling up fudge, toffee and Turkish delight with, it seemed to me, only the merest hint of adult supervision. Synonyms piece of confectionery, chocolate, bonbon, fondant 1.1 A small shaped piece of toffee candy. Example sentencesExamples Then, take one bite of apple and simultaneously pop a toffee into your mouth. I'm not madly keen on toffees, but anything with violets or ginger is more likely to end up in the bin. There were toffees and peppermint under my pillow this morning. A few children won prizes, and most others received freebies such as markers, toffees, and labels. Following recent takeovers, it has now extended its range to include wine gums, fruit pastilles, jelly beans and traditional boiled sweets, toffees and fudge. When we left, Nan gave me a whole bag of grandad's golden toffees. But once, trying to answer a question thrown at him, he choked and spluttered on a treacle toffee. She leads me into Chinese sweet shops where, alongside usual offerings of chocolates and toffees, there are buckets of candied dried shrimps and sugared squid. You can find it in sodas, candies, toffees, even ice cream and chewing gum, but don't expect to get much of a dose. In our tablet we use both fresh and condensed milk, and we also rely on condensed milk for making our toffees and candies. The lychees are the modern eater's answer to a bag of toffees. When he was at school he would sell toffees that his mother had made as well. The girl threw the toffees back at him and went to find her mother in a distressed state, the court was told. Place the milk and toffees together in a saucepan and warm over a low heat, stirring, until smooth. Avoid or restrict sugary foods like chocolates, toffees, desserts etc. But we must have looked so crestfallen that she smiled and gave us a toffee each. It had taken four hours to get hundreds of bars of chocolate, toffees and 600 packets of biscuits through a checkout. He shrugged, quickly, and stuffed the toffees back into his pocket. Combine the toffees and milk in a small heavy saucepan and cook over a low heat, stirring often, until the toffees melt. I also got some advocaat toffees and I like those too. Origin Early 19th century: alteration of taffy.
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