toffee
See also: Toffee
English
Alternative forms
- taffy (see usage notes)
- toffy
Etymology
Alteration of taffy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɒfi/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) enPR: täʹfē, IPA(key): /ˈtɔfi/
- Rhymes: -ɒfi
Noun
toffee (countable and uncountable, plural toffees)
- (uncountable) A type of 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.
- a box of toffees
- (Northern England) Any kind of sweets; candy.
Usage notes
- Unlike taffy, which is a soft candy, toffee is a hard candy.
Derived terms
- bonfire toffee
- cinder toffee
- English toffee
- for toffee
- honeycomb toffee
- maple toffee
- sponge toffee
- toffee apple
- toffee-brown
- toffee-colored, toffee-coloured
- toffee hammer
- toffee-nose
- toffee-nosed
- toffee paper
Translations
uncountable: type of confectionery
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countable: individual piece of toffee
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See also
- butterscotch
- caramel
- fudge
Verb
toffee (third-person singular simple present toffees, present participle toffeeing, simple past and past participle toffeed)
- (transitive) To coat in toffee.
- 1971, The Economist - Volume 239, page 74:
- The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.
- 2012, Elizabeth Lowry, The Bellini Madonna:
- 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.
- 2015, Tony Weston, Making a Name, page 93:
- 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.
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Anagrams
- tee off
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English toffee.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtofːeː/, [ˈt̪o̞fːe̞ː]
- Rhymes: -ofːeː
- Syllabification(key): tof‧fee
Noun
toffee
- toffee
Declension
Inflection of toffee (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | toffee | toffeet | |
genitive | toffeen | toffeiden toffeitten | |
partitive | toffeeta | toffeita | |
illative | toffeehen toffeeseen | toffeihin toffeisiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | toffee | toffeet | |
accusative | nom. | toffee | toffeet |
gen. | toffeen | ||
genitive | toffeen | toffeiden toffeitten | |
partitive | toffeeta | toffeita | |
inessive | toffeessa | toffeissa | |
elative | toffeesta | toffeista | |
illative | toffeehen toffeeseen | toffeihin toffeisiin | |
adessive | toffeella | toffeilla | |
ablative | toffeelta | toffeilta | |
allative | toffeelle | toffeille | |
essive | toffeena | toffeina | |
translative | toffeeksi | toffeiksi | |
instructive | — | toffein | |
abessive | toffeetta | toffeitta | |
comitative | — | toffeineen |
Possessive forms of toffee (type filee) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | toffeeni | toffeemme |
2nd person | toffeesi | toffeenne |
3rd person | toffeensa |
See also
- kinuski
- fudge