English-Thai Dictionary

toffee

N ลูกอม  ทอฟฟี่  toffy luk-aom

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TOFFEE; TOFFY

TOFFEE; TOFFY Tof "fee, Tof "fy, n.

 

Defn: Taffy. [Eng. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

toffee

tof fee |ˈtôfē, ˈtäfē ˈtɑfi ˈtɔfi | ▶noun ( pl. toffees ) a kind of firm or hard candy that softens when sucked or chewed, made by boiling together sugar and butter, often with other ingredients or flavorings added. • a small shaped piece of such candy. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: alteration of taffy .

 

toffee apple

tof ¦fee apple ▶noun Brit. an apple coated with a thin layer of toffee and fixed on a stick.

 

toffee-nosed

tof fee-nosed |ˈtɑfi ˌnoʊzd | ▶adjective informal, chiefly Brit. pretentiously superior; snobbish. DERIVATIVES tof fee nose noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

toffee

tof ¦fee |ˈtɒfi | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 a kind of firm or hard sweet which softens when sucked or chewed, made by boiling together sugar and butter, often with other ingredients or flavourings added. • [ count noun ] a small shaped piece of toffee. 2 Brit. informal, dated nonsense; rubbish: his wife swallowed this load of old toffee. PHRASES not be able to do something for toffee Brit. informal be totally incompetent at doing something: Jill said I couldn't sing for toffee. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: alteration of taffy .

 

toffee apple

tof ¦fee apple ▶noun Brit. an apple coated with a thin layer of toffee and fixed on a stick.

 

toffee-nosed

toffee-nosed ▶adjective Brit. informal pretentiously superior; snobbish: toffee-nosed creeps who think they're the same as royalty. DERIVATIVES toffee nose noun

 

Duden Dictionary

Toffee

Tof fee Substantiv, Neutrum , das |T o ffee auch …fi |englisch toffee, Herkunft ungeklärt weicher Sahnebonbon

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

toffee

tof fee /tɑ́fi |tɔ́fi /名詞 U C ｟英 ｠タフィー 〘砂糖 バターで作る飴 （あめ ）の一種 〙.c à n't do for t ó ffee ｟英 くだけて ｠まったく …できない .～́ à pple ｟英 ｠タフィーアップル 〘串 （くし ）に刺したリンゴに薄くタフィーを付けたもの 〙.

 

toffee-nosed

t ó ffee-n ò sed 形容詞 ｟英 くだけて ｠俗物の, 気取った .