Other forms: toffees
Toffee is a hard chewy sweet made from boiled butter and sugar. A bag of toffees, sticky toffee, toffee apples.
It is boiled to a higher temperature than fudge, which is why it is hard rather than soft, and the temperature decides everything. Cannot do something for toffee is a British phrase meaning cannot do it at all.
1nountoffeeA hard chewy sweet made from boiled butter and sugar.
“This toffee is so chewy that it sticks to your teeth.”
toffee is a sweet.
An alteration of taffy, an older word for the same sweet, of uncertain origin.
An alteration of taffy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA