Toffee

Quick meaning: Toffee is a noun meaning (countable) A small, individual piece of toffee.

Meaning

(countable) A small, individual piece of toffee.

More Meanings

1. (Northern England) Any kind of sweets; candy.
2. (transitive) To coat in toffee.
3. (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.

Example Sentences

The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.

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 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.

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.

Word Forms

• toffees
• toffy
• toffeeing
• toffeed

Synonyms for toffee

Depending on context, synonyms include toffy, brittle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include toffy, brittle, taffy, caramel, banoffee, tablet.

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