toffy

toffy is the alternative spelling of toffee.

Meaning of toffee

toffee (countable and uncountable, plural toffees)

(uncountable) 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.
(countable) 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
(Northern England) Any kind of sweets; candy.
(UK, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish.
- What a load of old toffee!

toffy (comparative toffier, superlative toffiest)

(Australia, New Zealand, UK, derogatory) Posh, upper-class; snooty.
- As for that accent of his, his speaking in a toffy English way, it's got toffier since we've known him.2007, Craig Sherborne, Muck, Victoria University Press, →ISBN, page 16
- Rather it lurks in the now-republished photos of Mr Osborne in the Fauntleroy outfit of the Bullingdon club, a toffy Oxford society of which he was a member at the same time as Mr Rothschild (and of which David Cameron, the Tory leader, is also an alumnus).2008 October 23, “The king of Corfu”, in The Economist

From toff + -y.

What does toffy mean?: Toffy means posh, upper-class; snooty.
What is toffy the alternative spelling of?: Toffy is the alternative spelling of toffee.
What part of speech is toffy?: Toffy is an adjective.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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