brittle, toffee, toffy
(noun) caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
Source: WordNet® 3.1
toffee (countable and uncountable, plural toffees)
(uncountable) a type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard
(countable) a small, individual piece of toffee
(Northern England) any kind of sweets; candy
• Toffee is similar to taffy, which is a soft candy, but toffee is a hard candy.
toffee (third-person singular simple present toffees, present participle toffeeing, simple past and past participle toffeed)
(transitive) To coat in toffee.
• tee off
Toffee (plural Toffees)
(informal, UK, soccer) A fan or member of Everton F.C..
• Toffeeman
• tee off
Source: Wiktionary
Tof"fee, Tof"fy, n.
Definition: Taffy. [Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 June 2025
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
