taffy

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She smiled at him again, as if his appreciation of her taffy was a bond of good fellowship between them.

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  1. noun A sweet, chewy candy of molasses or brown sugar boiled until very thick and then pulled with the hands or by machine until the candy is glossy and holds its shape.
  2. noun Informal Flattery.

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  • The taffy is a lovely purple, and it's the consistency of melted taffy. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • A salty whiff of bygone innocence and modern hype that - much like the taffy pulled along the famous Boardwalk - causes people to wax poetic. —  NY Daily News
  • Or should anyone get their shorts in a knot about a few glowing reviews of the local pull-taffy-and-bubble-tea emporium? —  Traffick
  • IRVINE Vocabularies stretched like taffy, kids queued up and waited outside A Whale of a Tale Children's Bookshoppe on Saturday to meet actor-author Jamie Lee Curtis. —  The Orange County Register - Homepage
  • As far as my icon, taffy was an obvious choice for me. —  Weddingbee
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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Also, in England, toffy, toffec; perhaps a transferred use of tafia, from French tafia, taffia: see tafia.
  2. from taffy, n.
 

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