different between toffee vs nougat

English

Etymology

Alteration of taffy.

Alternative forms

• taffy (see usage notes)
• toffy

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?fi/
• (US) enPR: tä?f?, IPA^(key): /?t?fi/
• Rhymes: -?fi

Noun

toffee (countable and uncountable, plural toffees)

1. (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
2. (countable) a small, individual piece of toffee

   a box of toffees

3. (Northern England) any kind of sweets; candy

Usage notes

• Unlike taffy, which is a soft candy, toffee is a hard candy.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• butterscotch
• caramel
• fudge

Verb

toffee (third-person singular simple present toffees, present participle toffeeing, simple past and past participle toffeed)

1. (transitive) To coat in toffee.

Anagrams

• tee off

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tof?e?/, [?t?o?f?e??]
• Rhymes: -of?e?
• Syllabification: tof?fee

Noun

toffee

1. toffee

Declension

English

Etymology

From French nougat, from Occitan nogat, from noga (“nut”), from Latin nux (“nut”). Compare Spanish nuégado.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?nu????/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n???t/, /?nu????/
• (US, Canada) enPR: no?o?gu?t IPA^(key): /?nu??t/

Noun

nougat (countable and uncountable, plural nougats)

1. A confection of honey or sugar and roasted nuts, often with other ingredients.

Translations

See also

• turrón

Further reading

• nougat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• toguna

Danish

Noun

nougat

1. brown nougat, Viennese nougat

See also

• fransk nougat (“white nougat”)

Finnish

Alternative forms

• nugaa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nu???/, [?nu???]

Noun

nougat

1. nougat

Usage notes

As the inflection looks awkward, it may sometimes be advisable to use the Finnicized form nugaa (“nougat”).

Declension

Anagrams

• guanot

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu.?a/

Noun

nougat m (plural nougats)

1. nougat

Further reading

• “nougat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• nugat

Etymology

From French nougat.

Noun

nougat m (definite singular nougaten, indefinite plural nougater, definite plural nougatene)

1. nougat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• nugat

Etymology

From French nougat.

Noun

nougat m (definite singular nougaten, indefinite plural nougatar, definite plural nougatane)

1. nougat

Portuguese

Noun

nougat m (plural nougats)

1. nougat (a confection of honey and roasted nuts)

   Synonym: nogado

Swedish

Noun

nougat ?

1. nougat