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/ˈtɒfi/ · noun
(uncountable) 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..
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.
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.
The fire had claimed three of Mr. Barry's barns and the wine presses and the oak fermentation vessels were blackened and sprung, the wine-sugars toffeeing the floor.
Use toffee when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Toffee means (uncountable) 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..
Common synonyms include toffy, brittle.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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