different between toffy vs toffee

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

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