Word.ws English Dictionary

toffee apples

toffee apples is the plural of toffee apple.

Meaning of toffee apple

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

Questions about toffee apples

What is toffee apples the plural of?
Toffee apples is the plural of toffee apple.

Words near toffee apples in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: toffee apples (page history and authors); toffee apple (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “toffee apples.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/toffee_apples. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.