toffee
part of speech
noun (toffee, toffees)
meaning for a pupil
1) A hard or chewy brown sweet made by boiling sugar and butter. tree →
2) A single sweet of this kind: "a toffee". tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life toffee is a treat; in the UK and Ireland, toffee apples are eaten at autumn fairs and Bonfire Night. In science and cooking, toffee shows how sugar changes when heated. Phrases: toffee apple, sticky toffee pudding, can't do it for toffee (very bad at it).
examples
- Grandma made sticky toffee pudding. tree →
- I bought a bag of toffees. tree →
- Toffee apples are sold at the fair. tree →
- Chewy toffee can pull out loose teeth! tree →
- He can't sing for toffee. tree →
- The sugar turned into golden toffee. tree →
note
Uncountable for the food ("some toffee"), countable for single sweets ("three toffees"). In the USA "taffy" is a similar chewy sweet. Safety: hot toffee is very dangerous because boiling sugar sticks to skin; only an adult should make it. Toffee is bad for teeth if eaten often.
In the corpora
- Toffee takes the carrot and a bit of his finger.
- After that the balls come back straight away, sometimes with a toffee.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «toffee» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.