A type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.
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A small, individual piece of toffee.
The tin is 6½ in. high and 4 in. in diameter, and has a domed snap-on lid with knob; it will hold 1 lb. of toffees.1960 June 23, “A Railway Toffee Tin”, in Railway Magazine, page 398:
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:
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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:
Toffee
noun
Etymology In reference to two toffee shops that were located in Everton village at the time the club was founded.