🎩 Pretentious style 🍬 A sweet

toffy

1 5.3

A sweet made by boiling sugar and butter until it becomes hard

noun
/ˈtɔfi/

: toffee

She made homemade toffy for the school bake sale.

Examples

The old-fashioned shop sells toffy in many different flavors.
I bought some delicious toffy at the fair.
Children love to chew on sticky toffy during the holidays.
These toffies are my favorite candy!
Children love to chew on sticky toffy during the holidays.
She made homemade toffy for the school bake sale.
The old-fashioned shop sells toffy in many different flavors.

Synonyms

toffee

vstoffy

13 1.9

A hard, chewy sweet made by boiling sugar and butter

forms hard thin sheets when cooled rather than staying chewy

brittle

vstoffy

9 4.2

A thin hard sweet made from melted sugar and nuts

is made by boiling sugar with butter and then cooling to harden

Compounds

toffy demeanor

Offensive

9.9

Acting like a rich person to seem better than others

How Chewy

toffy

1 5.3

caramel

8 1.3

fudge

87 1.0

hard candy

12 1.0

Surface Forms

toffy singular

toffies plural

Etymology

Toffy is a form of toffee and is like the chewy sweet taffy, so think of it as boiled sugar and butter cooled into sticky, thin sheets — a 'chewy candy'.