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# toffee

noun (toffee, toffees)

«toffee» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A hard or chewy brown sweet made by boiling sugar and butter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#m1)
2. A single sweet of this kind: "a toffee". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life toffee is a treat; in the UK and Ireland, toffee apples are eaten at autumn fairs and Bonfire Night. In science and cooking, toffee shows how sugar changes when heated. Phrases: toffee apple, sticky toffee pudding, can't do it for toffee (very bad at it).

### Examples

- Grandma made sticky toffee pudding. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#x1)
- I bought a bag of toffees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#x2)
- Toffee apples are sold at the fair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#x3)
- Chewy toffee can pull out loose teeth! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#x4)
- He can't sing for toffee. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#x5)
- The sugar turned into golden toffee. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#x6)

### Note

Uncountable for the food ("some toffee"), countable for single sweets ("three toffees"). In the USA "taffy" is a similar chewy sweet. Safety: hot toffee is very dangerous because boiling sugar sticks to skin; only an adult should make it. Toffee is bad for teeth if eaten often.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «toffee» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«toffee» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/toffee.html) on Mova free.