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# toffee

«toffee» in Mova's school dictionary: **A hard or chewy brown sweet made by boiling sugar and butter** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (toffee, toffees)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hard or chewy brown sweet made by boiling sugar and butter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#m1)

2) A single sweet of this kind: "a toffee". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life toffee is a treat; in the UK and Ireland, toffee apples are eaten at autumn fairs and Bonfire Night. In science and cooking, toffee shows how sugar changes when heated. Phrases: toffee apple, sticky toffee pudding, can't do it for toffee (very bad at it).

### examples

- Grandma made sticky toffee pudding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#x1)
- I bought a bag of toffees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#x2)
- Toffee apples are sold at the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#x3)
- Chewy toffee can pull out loose teeth! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#x4)
- He can't sing for toffee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#x5)
- The sugar turned into golden toffee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/#x6)

### note

Uncountable for the food ("some toffee"), countable for single sweets ("three toffees"). In the USA "taffy" is a similar chewy sweet. Safety: hot toffee is very dangerous because boiling sugar sticks to skin; only an adult should make it. Toffee is bad for teeth if eaten often.

### In the corpora

- [Toffee takes the carrot and a bit of his finger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/14/)
- [After that the balls come back straight away, sometimes with a toffee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «toffee» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toffee/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.