toffee

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a hard or chewy confection made by boiling sugar or molasses with butter and then cooling it

   The cook spread the hot toffee on a tray and left it to harden.

2. 2
   noun

   an individual piece of this confection

   She unwrapped a toffee and offered another to her brother.

Recorded in the early nineteenth century in the forms tuffy and toughy, toffee is a southern British dialectal variant of taffy. The further origin of taffy is uncertain; the modern spelling toffee is attested from the mid-nineteenth century.

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