toffee
- noun
- B2
- Top 10000
A brown sweet that you chew for a long time, made from sugar boiled with butter.
Grandma boils butter and sugar together to make her own toffee.
This ice cream has little chunks of toffee and roasted nuts.
Chewing hard toffee for too long makes my jaw start aching.
He sucked the toffee slowly instead of biting straight through it.
Common collocations: a piece of toffee · chewy toffee · sticky toffee · a bag of toffees · toffee apple · toffee-flavoured ice cream
Part of: Sweets
Forms
- plural
- toffees