toffee

[ taw-fee, tof-ee ]

noun

1. a brittle or chewy brown candy made of sugar or molasses boiled down with butter, often mixed with nuts.
2. British. taffy.

toffee

/ ˈtɒfɪ /

noun

1. a sweet made from sugar or treacle boiled with butter, nuts, etc
2. for toffee informal.
   preceded by can't to be incompetent at a specified activity

   he can't sing for toffee

Word History and Origins

Origin of toffee¹

First recorded in 1860–65; the earlier variants toughy, tuffy were first recorded in 1825–30 ; southern British dialect form of original northern British dialect taffy ( def ); further origin uncertain

Word History and Origins

Origin of toffee¹

C19: variant of earlier taffy

Example Sentences

Other new menu items include Starbuck’s Gingerbread Cream Cold Foam, a blend of gingerbread flavors with vanilla sweet cream; Turkey Sage Danish, a savory pastry filled with turkey sausage and bechamel sauce; Dark Toffee Bundt, a personal-sized, toffee-flavored Bundt cake; Penguin Cookie, a shortbread cookie iced with a penguin design; and Snowman Cake Pop, a vanilla-flavored cake mixed with buttercream and dipped in a white chocolate icing.

From Salon

The 23-year-old will be hoping to follow in fellow Toffee Jarrad Branthwaite's footsteps after the defender enjoyed an impressive Premier League campaign last season following a spell abroad.

From BBC

Jenny Kleran's passion is recreating classic British food brands such as Toffee Crisp, Branston Pickle and Wotsits in the form of multi-coloured painted pebbles.

From BBC

At Joy, also in Maryland, executive pastry chef Genesis Flores has put ube soft serve on the menu, coupled with salted peanut caramel, lemon-ginger syrup, honeycomb toffee, bee pollen and wae pieces.

From Salon

Over at Nama Ko, dessert is a miso-honey black truffle soft serve with dark chocolate toffee crunch, drizzled with both chocolate and caramel sauces.

From Salon