toffee









toffee


noun

  1. taffy.

noun plural -fees or -fies

  1. 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 activityhe can’t sing for toffee
n.

1825, tuffy, toughy, southern British dialectal variant of taffy. Modern spelling first recorded 1862.

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