toffee
/ˈtɒfi/US/ˈtɔfi/
toffee noun: 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.
Noun (1)
toffee (countable and uncountable, plural toffees)
- 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.
- A small, individual piece of toffee.
- The tin is 6½ in. high and 4 in. in diameter, and has a domed snap-on lid with knob; it will hold 1 lb. of toffees.1960 June, “A Railway Toffee Tin”, in Railway Magazine, page 398
- Any kind of sweets; candy.
- Nonsense; rubbish.
- What a load of old toffee!
Verb
toffee (third-person singular simple present toffees, present participle toffeeing, simple past and past participle toffeed)
- To coat in toffee.
- The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.1971, The Economist - Volume 239, page 74
- But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.2012, Elizabeth Lowry, The Bellini Madonna
Noun (2) capitalized: Toffee
Toffee (plural Toffees)
toffee meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
toffee in Hindi
- uncountable: type of confectionery
- टॉफ़ी ṭŏfī, टॉफी ṭŏphī
- countable: individual piece of toffee
- टॉफ़ी ṭŏfī, टॉफी ṭŏphī
toffee in Tamil
- uncountable: type of confectionery
- மூலம் வரும் இனிப்பு வகை mūlam varum iṉippu vakai
toffee in Marathi
- uncountable: type of confectionery
- टॉफी ṭŏphī
- countable: individual piece of toffee
- टॉफी ṭŏphī
toffee in Bengali
- uncountable: type of confectionery
- টফি ṭophi
More languagesFewer languages
- toffee in Telugu
- చేసిన మిఠాయి cēsina miṭhāyi
- toffee in Kannada
- ಟಾಫೀ ṭāphī
- toffee in Gujarati
- ટોફી ṭophī
- toffee in Assamese
- চক্লেট soklet
- toffee in Tagalog
- topi
- toffee in Malay
- gula-gula
- toffee in Persian
- تافی tâfi
- toffee in Thai
- ทอฟฟี tɔ́p-fîi
- toffee in Vietnamese
- kẹo bơ cứng
Examples of toffee in a sentence
- Toffee apples and fairy floss are often sold as fairground snacks.
- Rich and fruity but light in body with plenty of rich fruitcakey flavors, toffee, and chocolate raisins.
- Dunkels tend to be moderately hopped, made using dark malts, and offer malty, toffee, chocolate flavours.
Synonyms of toffee
Forms of toffee
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | toffees |
| alternative form | taffy |
| alternative form | toffy |
| plural | Toffees |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | toffees |
| present participle | toffeeing |
| past participle | toffeed |
| past | toffeed |
Origin of toffee
An alteration of taffy.
In reference to two toffee shops that were located in Everton village at the time the club was founded.
Words formed from toffee
- banoffee
- banoffee pie
- bonfire toffee
- cinder toffee
- easy as toffee
- English toffee
- for toffee
- honeycomb toffee
- maple toffee
- sponge toffee
- sticky toffee pudding
- toffee apple
- toffee-brown
- toffee-colored
- toffee-coloured
- toffee hammer
- toffeeish
- toffeelike
- Toffeeman
- toffee-nose
- toffee-nosed
- toffee paper
- toffee penny
Phrases with toffee
Words that rhyme with toffee
Questions about toffee
- What does toffee mean?
- Toffee means 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.
- What is toffee in Hindi?
- Toffee in Hindi is टॉफ़ी (ṭŏfī), टॉफी (ṭŏphī). See Toffee meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is toffee?
- Toffee can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce toffee?
- Toffee is pronounced /ˈtɒfi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of toffee?
- The plural of toffee is toffees.
Words near toffee in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: toffee (page history and authors); Toffee (page history and authors); চক্লেট (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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