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taffy

English

Alternative forms

  • toffee (see usage notes)

Etymology

Probably related to tafia (kind of rum).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?tæ.fi/
  • Rhymes: -æfi

Noun

taffy (countable and uncountable, plural taffies)

  1. (US) A soft, chewy candy made from boiled sugar, molasses, or corn syrup and butter.
  2. (informal) Flattery.
    • 1881, Mark Twain, Unfinished Burlesque on Books of Etiquette:
      ... if these statistices should seem to fail to tally with the facts, in places, do not nudge your neighbor, or press your foot upon his toes, or manifest, by any other sign, your awareness that taffy is being distributed.

Usage notes

  • Taffy is a soft candy invented in the United States and known as "chews" or "chewy sweets" in the United Kingdom. It is not to be confused with toffee.

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • “taffy”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

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daffy

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?dæfi/
  • Rhymes: -æfi

Etymology 1

From daff +? -y.

Adjective

daffy (comparative daffier, superlative daffiest)

  1. (colloquial) Somewhat mad or eccentric.
    Synonyms: crazy, nutty, wacky
    • 1909, Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost, ch. 1
      "You've gone so plum daffy you are forgetting your dinner," jeered her mother.
    • 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O Russet Witch!, ch. 4
      He was daffy about her and she could twist him around her little finger.

Etymology 2

Noun

daffy (plural daffies)

  1. (informal) A daffodil.

Etymology 3

An allusion to an old medicine known as Daffy's Elixir.

Noun

daffy (uncountable)

  1. (Britain, slang, dated) Gin.
    • 1954, Denzil Batchelor, Big Fight: The Story of World Championship Boxing (page 44)
      [] he failed repeatedly until he took over his famous house in Haymarket, where for many years, surrounded by such admirers as Byron, Tom Moore and Hazlitt, he smoked his yard of clay, drained his glass of 'daffy', and []
    • 1991, Julie Caille, Change of Heart (page 255)
      Within Castle Tavern, at Holborn, Charles Perth and Lord Lucan were drowning their disparate sorrows in a glass of daffy.
References
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

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