toffee apple
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- noun
- /ˈtɔfi ˈæpəl/
- UK
:
manzana de caramelo
- Children were excitedly choosing their favorite toffee apples from the candy booth.
Examples
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She saw those um.. ...those toffee apple stalls and everything.
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Toffee apples - lovely to look at
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Before we even got to the market, I found this store totally dedicated to toffee apples of every type imaginable.
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Toffee apple.
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Toffee apple.
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I think if I bought a toffee apple like this, I would not be able to get past the glorious topping; the apple would go to waste.
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We used to have home-roasted chestnuts, marshmallows, toffee apples, and chili ...
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The fair had a stall selling delicious toffee apples on sticks.
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She bit into the toffee apple and enjoyed the crunchy caramel coating.
Synonyms
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An apple covered in caramel and held on a stick as a sweet treat
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3.1
An apple covered in a hard shiny sugar coating
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2.9
An apple covered in a hard layer of sugar and served on a stick
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5.8
An apple covered in hard sweet candy on a stick
How Coated
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'toffee' describes the coating on the 'apple', so a learner who knows both words can infer an apple covered in toffee. This noun–noun compound follows a common English pattern (and parallels cross-linguistic concepts like 'caramel/candied apple'), making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Toffee apple comes from a clear picture: a fresh apple on a stick is dipped in hot, melted toffee that cools into a hard, shiny shell. So the name simply describes the 'treat': an apple with a sweet, hard sugar coating.