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- noun Plural form of
toffee .
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Examples
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They filled our house and our garage, the back seat and boot of the car and they acted as a kind of sticky Pied Piper, bringing children to loiter round our gateposts, hoping to score some of the samples of new lines or gone-soft toffees that were being sent back to the factory to be disposed off.
Life is sweet 2011
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The names of the sweeties reel off my tongue, taking me back to summers spent in my mum's car, when I "helped" as she sold boilings, toffees, chocolates and fudges to the corner shops and cafés of the west of Scotland.
Life is sweet 2011
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Some of the equipment dates back to the 1920s, but the hand-dropping method is no longer used for the toffees: times change and new contraptions take over.
Life is sweet 2011
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I've only seen part one of three but I say with some confidence that you could get through some toffees watching this.
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I was five years old when my mother, Christine, became a "sweetie lady", selling twinkling jars of sugared delights for Buchanan's, a traditional confectionery company then most famous for its waxpaper-wrapped toffees the size of an old penny.
Life is sweet 2011
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"The toffees just looked too tempting not to take," she said.
Life is sweet 2011
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They weren't chatty, said Rasheed, a 32-year-old local shopkeeper, lounging behind his counter who said he sold the brothers salty biscuits and chewy toffees when they arrived with their seven children.
Osama bin Laden's last hours come into focus as White House revises its story 2011
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All Jenny had been able to manage ... was sucking at a few mouthfuls of fish as if they were toffees, until they were small enough to swallow.
Stefan Beck: The Most Disappointing Game: A Muskrat Ramble in Smyrna, Delaware (PHOTOS) 2010
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We have something called Licorice Allsorts in the UK, which are little toffees which are made of little sandwiches of, you know, 10 layers of these things.
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We have something called Licorice Allsorts in the UK, which are little toffees which are made of little sandwiches of, you know, 10 layers of these things.
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