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单词 toffee
释义

toffee

See also: Toffee

English

Alternative forms

  • taffy (see usage notes)
  • toffy

Etymology

Alteration of taffy.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɒfi/
  • (file)
  • (US) enPR: täʹfē, IPA(key): /ˈtɔfi/
  • Rhymes: -ɒfi

Noun

toffee (countable and uncountable, plural toffees)

  1. (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.
  2. (countable) A small, individual piece of toffee.
    a box of toffees
  3. (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

See also

  • butterscotch
  • caramel
  • fudge

Verb

toffee (third-person singular simple present toffees, present participle toffeeing, simple past and past participle toffeed)

  1. (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.

Anagrams

  • tee off

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English toffee.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtofːeː/, [ˈt̪o̞fːe̞ː]
  • Rhymes: -ofːeː
  • Syllabification(key): tof‧fee

Noun

toffee

  1. toffee

Declension

Inflection of toffee (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation)
nominativetoffeetoffeet
genitivetoffeentoffeiden
toffeitten
partitivetoffeetatoffeita
illativetoffeehen
toffeeseen
toffeihin
toffeisiin
singularplural
nominativetoffeetoffeet
accusativenom.toffeetoffeet
gen.toffeen
genitivetoffeentoffeiden
toffeitten
partitivetoffeetatoffeita
inessivetoffeessatoffeissa
elativetoffeestatoffeista
illativetoffeehen
toffeeseen
toffeihin
toffeisiin
adessivetoffeellatoffeilla
ablativetoffeeltatoffeilta
allativetoffeelletoffeille
essivetoffeenatoffeina
translativetoffeeksitoffeiksi
instructivetoffein
abessivetoffeettatoffeitta
comitativetoffeineen
Possessive forms of toffee (type filee)
possessorsingularplural
1st persontoffeenitoffeemme
2nd persontoffeesitoffeenne
3rd persontoffeensa

See also

  • kinuski
  • fudge
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