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 April 2025
(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
