- a sticky sweet made by heating sugar, butter and water together and allowing it to coolTopics Foodc1Oxford Collocations DictionaryToffee is used before these nouns:
- apple
Word Originearly 19th cent.: alteration of taffy.
Idioms
See toffee in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarycan’t do something for toffee
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal) if somebody can’t do something for toffee, they are very bad at doing it
- He can't dance for toffee!
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