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toffee

Pronunciation: /ˈtɒfi/

The English word “toffee” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  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.
  2. A small, individual piece of toffee.
  3. Any kind of sweets; candy.
  4. Nonsense; rubbish.

verb

  1. To coat in toffee.

Etymology

An alteration of taffy.

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