toffee
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An alteration of taffy.
Inflected forms:
form: toffees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: taffy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: toffy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: toffees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toffeeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toffeed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toffeed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: taffy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: toffy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A small, individual piece of toffee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: Any kind of sweets; candy.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
countable
uncountable
gloss: Nonsense; rubbish.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
uncountable
examples: What a load of old toffee!
gloss: To coat in toffee.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.
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.
The fire had claimed three of Mr. Barry's barns and the wine presses and the oak fermentation vessels were blackened and sprung, the wine-sugars toffeeing the floor.
Related words: butterscotch
caramel
fudge
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: karamele me gjalpë
lang: Albanian
word: sheqerkë
lang: Arabic
word: توفي
roman: tōfi, tūfi
lang: Azerbaijani
word: iris
lang: Bengali
word: টফি
roman: ṭophi
lang: Bulgarian
word: карамел лакта
roman: karamel lakta
lang: Bulgarian
word: лакта
roman: lakta
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 奶糖
roman: nǎi táng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 乳脂軟糖 /乳脂软糖
roman: rǔzhī ruǎntáng
lang: Czech
word: karamela
lang: Danish
word: flødekaramel
lang: Dutch
word: toffee
lang: Finnish
word: toffee
lang: French
word: caramel
lang: German
word: Toffee
lang: German
word: Karamelle
lang: Gujarati
word: ટોફી
roman: ṭophī
lang: Hindi
word: टॉफ़ी
roman: ṭŏfī
lang: Hindi
word: टॉफी
roman: ṭŏphī
lang: Irish
word: taifí
lang: Italian
word: caramella mou
lang: Japanese
word: タフィー
roman: tafī
lang: Japanese
word: ファッジ
roman: fajji
lang: Kannada
word: ಟಾಫೀ
roman: ṭāphī
lang: Malay
word: gula-gula
lang: Māori
word: towhi
lang: Māori
word: tawhe
lang: Māori
word: tawhi
lang: Marathi
word: टॉफी
roman: ṭŏphī
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: karamell
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: karamell
lang: Persian
word: تافی
roman: tâfi
lang: Polish
word: toffi
lang: Portuguese
word: caramelo
lang: Romanian
word: caramelă
lang: Russian
word: ири́с
roman: irís
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: karamela
lang: Spanish
word: caramelo
lang: Swedish
word: kola
lang: Swedish
word: gräddkola
lang: Tagalog
word: topi
lang: Tamil
word: மூலம் வரும் இனிப்பு வகை
roman: mūlam varum iṉippu vakai
lang: Telugu
word: చేసిన మిఠాయి
roman: cēsina miṭhāyi
lang: Thai
word: ทอฟฟี
roman: tɔ́p-fîi
lang: Turkish
word: şekerleme
lang: Ukrainian
word: іри́с
roman: irýs
lang: Uzbek
word: iris qand
lang: Vietnamese
word: kẹo bơ cứng
lang: Welsh
word: cyflaith
lang: Welsh
word: taffi
lang: Welsh
word: toffi
lang: Yiddish
word: איריס
roman: iris