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tof·fee

(tô′fē, tŏf′ē)

A hard, chewy candy made of brown sugar or molasses and butter.

[Alteration of taffy.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

toffee

(ˈtɒfɪ) or

toffy

n, pl -fees or -fies

1. (Cookery) a sweet made from sugar or treacle boiled with butter, nuts, etc

2. for toffee (preceded by can't) informal to be incompetent at a specified activity: he can't sing for toffee.

[C19: variant of earlier taffy]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

tof•fee

or tof•fy

(ˈtɔ fi, ˈtɒf i)

n.

a brittle confection made by boiling together brown sugar, butter, and vinegar.

[1820–30; variant of taffy]

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Noun

toffee - caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets

brittle, toffy

candy, confect - a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

peanut brittle - brittle containing peanuts

Translations

طُوفيطوفي: نَوْع من الحَلْوى

karamelamléčná karamela

karamel

toffee

karamel

karamella

caramella caramella morbida caramella mou per niente

トフィー

토피

īriss

mliečna karamelka

karamela

kola

ลูกอม

karamela

kẹo bơ cứng

太妃糖

toffee

[ˈtɒfɪ]

A. N → caramelo m, dulce m de leche
he/she can't do it for toffee → no tiene ni idea de cómo hacerlo

B. CPD toffee apple N → manzana f de caramelo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

toffee

[ˈtɒfi] n → caramel mtoffee apple n (British) → pomme f d'amourtoffee-nosed [ˌtɒfiˈnəʊzd] adj (British) → bêcheur/euse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

toffee

n (Brit) (= substance) → (Sahne)karamell m; (= sweet) → Toffee nt, → (weiches) Karamellbonbon; he can’t sing for toffee (inf) → er kann überhaupt nicht singen, er kann nicht die Bohne singen (inf)

toffee

toffee apple

n → kandierter Apfel

toffee-nosed

adj (Brit inf) → eingebildet, hochnäsig

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

toffee

[ˈtɒfɪ] n → caramella f mou inv
he can't sing for toffee (Brit) (fam) → come cantante non vale una cicca

toffee

(ˈtofi) noun

(a piece of) a kind of sticky sweet made of sugar and butter. Have a (piece of) toffee

toffee

→ طُوفي karamela karamel Toffee τόφι caramelo, toffee toffee caramel karamel caramella mou トフィー 토피 toffee toffee toffi caramelo, puxa-puxa ириска kola ลูกอม karamela kẹo bơ cứng 太妃糖

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The customers came in crowds every day and bought quantities, especially the toffee customers.

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However, this bottle was NOT marked `poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.

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Instead of the choicest bonbons wrapped in bank-bills, he gallantly presented paper-bags full of toffee. Let us say to the glory of Alencon that the toffee was accepted with more joy than la Duthe ever showed at a gilt service or a fine equipage offered by the Comte d'Artois.

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He shared his money with him: bought him uncountable presents of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in many of which latter you might read inscriptions to George Sedley Osborne, Esquire, from his attached friend William Dobbin--the which tokens of homage George received very graciously, as became his superior merit.

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