toffee
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- noun
- /ˈtɔfi/
:
caramelo
- Wake up and smell the toffee.
- chocolate toffee
- butter toffee
- English toffee
It smells like vanilla toffee or something.
- It smells like vanilla toffee or something.
- Cocoa, chocolate, chocolate, salted toffee, truffles.
- Oh, oh, it's different, but it's good toffee flavour.
- What do you think that one is, Toffee?
- White chocolate toffee cashews, bourbon pecans, Bourbon pecans sound amazing by the way.
- Mine would be like toffee, I think.
Examples
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Sticky toffee pudding.
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Nancy, my stepmom, remembers that she bought some Irish toffee as a gift for her mother.
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All you need to do is send a toffee sample to us with a note.
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Let's go and get some toffee.
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Enstrom Candies is famous for their toffee, and now I understand why!
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I love the crunchy texture of toffee mixed with nuts.
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She bought a bag of toffee to share with her friends at the party.
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The shop sells delicious toffee in various flavors, including nut and caramel.
Synonyms
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1.3
A firm chewy sweet made from cooked sugar and milk
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A sweet hard candy made from butter and brown sugar
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A hard sweet made by boiling sugar and letting it cool
A sweet made by boiling sugar and butter until it becomes hard
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How Chewy
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Etymology
Toffee probably comes from an older English word taffy for a sticky sweet, and it also sounds like tough ('hard' or 'chewy'). So, toffee is a sweet that is often 'hard' or 'chewy'.