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toffee apple

toffee apple noun: a candy apple.

toffee apple: a candy apple
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Noun

toffee apple (plural toffee apples)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A candy apple.
    • Toffee apples and fairy floss are often sold as fairground snacks.
    Synonyms:
    candy apple
  2. (Ireland, UK, historical, slang) A kind of British trench mortar used in World War I.
    • Here we would find, perhaps, three 18-pounder guns dug in as antitank defences supplemented by 60 lb "toffee apple" trench mortar bombs buried as makeshift anti-tank mines.2014, Richard Baber, The SOTCW World War I Compendium

Synonyms of toffee apple

Forms of toffee apple

pluraltoffee apples

Origin of toffee apple

The weapon is named after the food item, having a similar shape, i.e. a sphere with attached stick or handle.

Questions about toffee apple

What does toffee apple mean?
Toffee apple means a candy apple.
What part of speech is toffee apple?
Toffee apple is a noun.
What is the plural of toffee apple?
The plural of toffee apple is toffee apples.

Words near toffee apple in the dictionary

  1. TOFC
  2. tofenacin
  3. tofersen
  4. toff
  5. toffee
  6. toffee apple
  7. toffee apples
  8. toffee hammer
  9. toffee hammers
  10. toffee paper
  11. toffee papers

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