taffy
pronunciation
How to pronounce taffy in British English:
UK [ˈtæfi]
How to pronounce taffy in American English:
US [ˈtæfi]
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- Noun:
- chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy
Word Origin
- taffy (n.)
- coarse candy made from sugar or molasses boiled down and cooled, 1817, related to toffee, but of uncertain origin; perhaps associated with tafia (1763), a rum-like alcoholic liquor distilled from molasses, presumably of West Indian or Malay origin (perhaps a Creole shortening of ratafia). On this theory, the candy would have been made from the syrup skimmed off the liquor during distillation.
- Taffy
- characteristic name of a Welshman, c. 1700, from Teifi, Welsh form of Davy (see David).
Example
- 1. By my fifth piece of peppermint taffy , I realized ......
- 2. Remember you loved the saltwater taffy ?
- 3. Saltwater taffy ! Would you like some ?
- 4. 2012 Doomsday predictions pale in comparison to the violence of an entire star being stretched like taffy and them swallowed into the gravitational abyss of a battlestar galactica-class black hole .
- 5. When I was nine , I used to huddle in the back of the library with my friend leanne and we 'd turn the 1991 edition of the " guinness book " pages with purple hands sticky from raspberry laffy taffy .