Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hard, chewy candy made of brown sugar or molasses and butter.
Wiktionary
- n. 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
- n. countable a small, individual piece of toffee
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. engraving Taffy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
Etymologies
- Alteration of taffy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Scatter strips of crystallized ginger and cumin toffee cashews over the plate.”
“The toffee is a bit of an accquired taste - some kids come back for more, some chuck it away and we find it days later gently deliquescing and looking remarkable like a dying slug.”
“Just as frogs use glucose, Arctic brine shrimp and many cold-tolerant insects use a sugar called trehalose, which forms a syrup as thick as stretchy toffee, is even better at lowering freezing points and stopping dehydration than glycerol or glucose.”
“As an aside, the word toffee is comparatively new (19th century), and in Wales the sweet would have been known as cyflaith, ffanni, and most commonly taffi (taffy).”
“In Britain the word toffee now appears to be used to describe both forms.”
“There's sugar in toffee and in jam, and they're hot, leastways they're hot to be made.”
“I wonder if using a tart type of apple and adding in toffee chips would be as amazing as my brain thinks it would be. jenn Oct 2 oh, i so know what i’m making tomorrow! thank you so much!!!!”
“Future versions may even contain toffee (don’t get too excited.) Congrats are also in order to Blondie and Brownie.”
“Still, in "Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food," the influential British food writer calls toffee pudding a similar, if less sticky, confection "the best of all the hot, rich English puddings, perfect for a weekend lunch party on a winter day.”
“One recipe using black treacle that won't make you turn on the oven is this toffee, which is traditionally eaten by kids on Guy Fawkes Night.”
The Washington Post: Chat Leftovers: The treacle-down theory
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘toffee’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
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confectionary
lollies sweets
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chocolate gets 112 hits
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
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mandarine's Words
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food
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Chromonyms
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botello360's list
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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Winter Solstice
Words that have something to do with the holidays that fall on or near the Winter Solstice
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encyclopedia gustatorica
béchamel, tart, pie, cupcake, roux, jambalaya, étouffé, succulent, plum, pomegranate, peach, apple and 300 more...
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confectionary
sweet things.
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Humbug and bafflegab
oil, rot, gas, gup, pop, jive, bull, jazz, guff, pish, tosh, flam and 83 more...
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Food Words I Like
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Retroliterals
Words having the letters in reverse alphabetically order. Only words of six or more letters are listed here. For alphabetical order see Alphaliterals. See uoiea and yuoiea for words and phrases wit...
jigged, ligged, miffed, pigged, polked, polled, pollee, pommie, ponged, pongee, ponied, poohed and 75 more...
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