toffee

plural toffees · alternative taffy · alternative toffy

1. uncountableA type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.
2. countableA small, individual piece of toffee.

   The tin is 6½ in. high and 4 in. in diameter, and has a domed snap-on lid with knob; it will hold 1 lb. of toffees.

   1960 June 28, “A Railway Toffee Tin”, in Railway Magazine, page 398

3. Northern EnglandcountableuncountableAny kind of sweets; candy.
4. UKslanguncountableNonsense; rubbish.

   What a load of old toffee!

present singular third person toffees · participle present toffeeing · participle past toffeed · past toffeed · alternative taffy · alternative toffy

1. transitiveTo coat in toffee.

   The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.

   1971, The Economist - Volume 239, page 74

   2 more examples

   But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.

   2012, Elizabeth Lowry, The Bellini Madonna

   The fire had claimed three of Mr. Barry's barns and the wine presses and the oak fermentation vessels were blackened and sprung, the wine-sugars toffeeing the floor.

   2015, Tony Weston, Making a Name, page 93

plural Toffees

1. UKinformalball gamesA fan or member of Everton F.C..

   Synonyms: Toffeeman