toffee
A type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar with butter or milk, then cooling…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.
» This chocolate bar has chunks of toffee in it.
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4 senses(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.
(countable)A small, individual piece of toffee.
ири́скаiríska
(Northern England, countable, uncountable)Any kind of sweets; candy.
Toffee, Karamelle
ири́сirís
іри́сirýs
(UK, slang, uncountable)Nonsense; rubbish.
What a load of old toffee!
- caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
Examples
5 sentencesThis chocolate bar has chunks of toffee in it.
Is the toffee vegan?
I'm making vegan toffee.
Toffee isn't taffy.
"How do you like these cookies I made?" "They're pretty good, but they'd taste better with some chunks of toffee in them."
Translations
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Origin
An alteration of taffy.An alteration of taffy.
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Forms
plural: toffeesSynonyms
1 synonyms- caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets:brittle
Word family
20 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.