toffee

• taffy (see usage notes)
• toffy

An alteration of taffy.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒfi/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) enPR: täʹfē, IPA^(key): /ˈtɔfi/
• Rhymes: -ɒfi

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.
3. (Northern England) Any kind of sweets; candy.

• Unlike taffy, which is a soft candy, toffee is a hard candy.

• → Cantonese: 拖肥 (to¹ fei^4-2)

• butterscotch
• caramel
• fudge

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.

• tee off

Borrowed from English toffee.

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

toffee

1. toffee

• kinuski
• fudge

• “toffee”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023