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countable and uncountable, plural toffees
(uncountable) A type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard. examples
(countable) A small, individual piece of toffee. examples
(Northern England) Any kind of sweets; candy. examples
third-person singular simple present toffees, present participle toffeeing, simple past and past participle toffeed
(transitive) To coat in toffee. quotations examples
The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.
1971, The Economist - Volume 239, page 74
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.
2012, Elizabeth Lowry, The Bellini Madonna
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.
2015, Tony Weston, Making a Name, page 93