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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets [syn: brittle, toffee, toffy]

Merriam Webster's

also toffy noun (plural toffees; also toffies) Etymology: alteration of taffy Date: 1825 candy of brittle but tender texture made by boiling sugar and butter together

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also toffy) (pl. toffees or toffies) 1 a kind of firm or hard sweet softening when sucked or chewed, made by boiling sugar, butter, etc. 2 Brit. a small piece of this. Phrases and idioms: for toffee sl. (prec. by can't etc.) (denoting incompetence) at all (they couldn't sing for toffee). toffee-apple an apple with a thin coating of toffee. toffee-nosed esp. Brit. sl. snobbish, pretentious. Etymology: earlier TAFFY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Toffee Tof"fee, Toffy Tof"fy, n. Taffy. [Eng.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(toffees) 1. Toffee is a sticky sweet that you chew. It is made by boiling sugar and butter together with water. (BRIT; in AM, use taffy) 2. A toffee is an individual piece of toffee. N-COUNT