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nounPlural Taffies, Plural taffies ˈtafi mass noun1North American A sweet similar to toffee, made from brown sugar or treacle, boiled with butter and pulled until glossy. 〈北美〉太妃糖，乳脂糖 Example sentencesExamples - We gorged ourselves on boardwalk treats: caramel apples, cotton candy, salt water taffy, hot waffles and ice cream.
- This is expected if extensive reconnection is occurring, because as the magnetic fields stretch, the reconnection layer also stretches, like taffy being pulled.
- The pages for January show children sledding with homemade wooden sleds, roasting apples over an open fire and pulling taffy.
- Antonia would make cookies or taffy for them and then tell stories about her life on the country or what she remembered of Bohemia.
- November featured both All Saints' Day and Saint Catherine's Day, during which it was a French Canadian custom to pull taffy.
- We watched the flame-colored taffy spin in the dark puddles.
- By weight taffy is about 40% sucrose and hard candy is about 80%.
- Carefully he pulled out a small velvet bag, which inside contained of variety of saltwater taffies.
- Think of taffy: When it's cold and you try to bend it, it breaks.
- I felt like I was starting to fall into a vat of twisting, turning taffy; just like the kinds you would see at the fair.
- It felt like my mouth had a huge piece of taffy in it and just would not come unstuck.
- Good calamari is like good taffy: stretchy and tasty.
- They made one last stop at the small pink and white striped salt-water taffy shop that sold the best salt-water taffy that could be imagined.
- They visited a few obscure shops, that turned out to be awesome, including a little old-fashioned taffy shop, where they made fresh taffy each hour, in so many different flavours.
- Steel, even this thick, should have pulled apart like taffy.
- Their bodies are nearly indestructible, and can twist and turn into any design, like taffy.
- Heavyweight oil can take on the consistency of taffy in cold temperatures and drag down a battery in a hurry, so plan to switch to a lighter grade of oil if you're flying into sub-zero conditions.
- His legs felt like taffy: thin, ropy strands that had been pulled too far.
- Looking at a paper, he found his locker; put his hand on the lock, only to realize there was taffy intentionally stuck there.
- She looked over to see Leslie giving a reluctant child a piece of saltwater taffy.
2US informal Insincere flattery. 〈美，非正式〉谄媚，奉承 she told me that my music was perfectly wonderful, and taffy like that
OriginEarly 19th century: earlier form of toffee, ultimate origin unknown. toff from mid 19th century: This is perhaps an alteration of tuft, once a term for titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge, who wore a gold tassel on their caps—social climbers and toadies were called tuft-hunters from the mid 18th century. The associations of the word may have influenced toffee-nosed or ‘snobbish’, which was originally military slang. Toffee seems to have been a desirable commodity to soldiers during the First World War— not be able to do something for toffee, or be totally incompetent at it, is first recorded in 1914 in the mouth of a British ‘Tommy’. Toffee (early 19th century) is an alteration of taffy (early 19th century), now mainly used in North America for a sweet resembling toffee. The Taffy that is a name for a Welshman is quite different, representing a supposed Welsh pronunciation of the name David or Dafydd.
nounPlural Taffies, Plural taffies ˈtafi British derogatory, informal A Welshman (often as a form of address).
OriginMid 17th century: representing a supposed Welsh pronunciation of the given name Davy or David (Welsh Dafydd). Definition of taffy in US English: taffynounˈtafēˈtæfi 1North American A candy similar to toffee, made from sugar or molasses, boiled with butter and pulled until glossy. 〈北美〉太妃糖，乳脂糖 Example sentencesExamples - This is expected if extensive reconnection is occurring, because as the magnetic fields stretch, the reconnection layer also stretches, like taffy being pulled.
- Think of taffy: When it's cold and you try to bend it, it breaks.
- We gorged ourselves on boardwalk treats: caramel apples, cotton candy, salt water taffy, hot waffles and ice cream.
- Carefully he pulled out a small velvet bag, which inside contained of variety of saltwater taffies.
- November featured both All Saints' Day and Saint Catherine's Day, during which it was a French Canadian custom to pull taffy.
- They made one last stop at the small pink and white striped salt-water taffy shop that sold the best salt-water taffy that could be imagined.
- Looking at a paper, he found his locker; put his hand on the lock, only to realize there was taffy intentionally stuck there.
- I felt like I was starting to fall into a vat of twisting, turning taffy; just like the kinds you would see at the fair.
- We watched the flame-colored taffy spin in the dark puddles.
- By weight taffy is about 40% sucrose and hard candy is about 80%.
- Steel, even this thick, should have pulled apart like taffy.
- They visited a few obscure shops, that turned out to be awesome, including a little old-fashioned taffy shop, where they made fresh taffy each hour, in so many different flavours.
- It felt like my mouth had a huge piece of taffy in it and just would not come unstuck.
- His legs felt like taffy: thin, ropy strands that had been pulled too far.
- The pages for January show children sledding with homemade wooden sleds, roasting apples over an open fire and pulling taffy.
- Good calamari is like good taffy: stretchy and tasty.
- Antonia would make cookies or taffy for them and then tell stories about her life on the country or what she remembered of Bohemia.
- Heavyweight oil can take on the consistency of taffy in cold temperatures and drag down a battery in a hurry, so plan to switch to a lighter grade of oil if you're flying into sub-zero conditions.
- Their bodies are nearly indestructible, and can twist and turn into any design, like taffy.
- She looked over to see Leslie giving a reluctant child a piece of saltwater taffy.
2US informal Insincere flattery. 〈美，非正式〉谄媚，奉承 she told me that my music was perfectly wonderful, and taffy like that
OriginEarly 19th century: earlier form of toffee, ultimate origin unknown. |