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別の表記

• taffy (see usage notes)
• toffy

語源

An alteration of taffy.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɒfi/
• (米国発音) enPR: täʹfē, IPA: /ˈtɔfi/, (cot–caught merger) /ˈtɑfi/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈtɔfe/, /-fɪ/, /-fi/
• 韻: -ɒfi

名詞

toffee (countable and uncountable, plural toffees)

1. (uncountable) A 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. (countable) A small, individual piece of toffee.
   • 1960 June, “A Railway Toffee Tin”, in Railway Magazine, page 398:

     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.

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

使用する際の注意点

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

派生語

派生した語

• → Cantonese: 拖肥 (to fei)

参考

• butterscotch
• caramel
• fudge

動詞

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

1. (transitive) To coat in toffee.
   • 1971, The Economist - Volume 239, page 74:

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

   • 2012, Elizabeth Lowry, The Bellini Madonna:

     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.

   • 2015, Tony Weston, Making a Name, page 93:

     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.

アナグラム

• tee off