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toffee.

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.

6 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈtɒfi/Received-Pronunciation/ˈtɔfi/US/ˈtɑfi/cot-caught-merger, US/ˈtɔfe/Scotland
  1. 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.

    uncountable
  2. A small, individual piece of toffee.

    countable
  3. Any kind of sweets; candy.

    Northern-England · countable · uncountable
  4. Nonsense; rubbish.

    UK · slang · uncountable
    What a load of old toffee!
Where this word comes from

An alteration of taffy.

verb/ˈtɒfi/Received-Pronunciation/ˈtɔfi/US/ˈtɑfi/cot-caught-merger, US/ˈtɔfe/Scotland
  1. To coat in toffee.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

An alteration of taffy.

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