different between toffy vs candy

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

toffy (countable and uncountable, plural toffies)

1. Alternative spelling of toffee

Etymology 2

toff +? -y

Adjective

toffy (comparative toffier, superlative toffiest)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) Posh, upper-class; snooty.
   • 2007, Craig Sherborne, Muck, Victoria University Press (2007), ?ISBN, page 16:

     As for that accent of his, his speaking in a toffy English way, it's got toffier since we've known him.

   • 2008, "The king of Corfu", The Economist, 23 October 2008:

     Rather it lurks in the now-republished photos of Mr Osborne in the Fauntleroy outfit of the Bullingdon club, a toffy Oxford society of which he was a member at the same time as Mr Rothschild (and of which David Cameron, the Tory leader, is also an alumnus).

   • 2012, Paddy O'Reilly, The Fine Color of Rust, Washington Square Press (2012), ?ISBN, page 44:

     She heaves an exasperated sigh that would do a shop assistant in a toffy dress emporium proud.

See also

• toffee-nosed

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?n'di, IPA^(key): /?kændi/
• Rhymes: -ændi

Etymology 1

From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic ?????? ???????? (sukkar qand?), from Arabic ?????? (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian ???? (kand); likely from Sanskrit ???? (kha??a, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root ????? (kha??, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *ka??u; compare Tamil ????? (ka??u, “hard candy”).

Noun

candy (countable and uncountable, plural candies)

1. (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
2. (countable, chiefly Canada, US) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
3. (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.

Synonyms

• (confection): confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (US)
• (piece of candy): sweet (British), lolly (Australia)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (kai???)
• ? Hopi: kyenti

Translations

Verb

candy (third-person singular simple present candies, present participle candying, simple past and past participle candied)

1. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
2. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

   Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

3. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Translations

See also

• ???? (Unicode candy symbol)

References

Etymology 2

From Marathi ???? (kha???), from Sanskrit ????? (kha??ana), from root ????? (kha??, “to divide, break into pieces”).

Alternative forms

• candee
• candie
• kandy

Noun

candy (plural candies)

1. (obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Synonyms

• maunee

Translations

Anagrams

• Dancy, dancy