One picture can hold this page: a pan of sugar and butter boiled until it turns brown, then left to cool until it is hard and . The sweet is that pan. The verb is that pan poured over fruit. And two British spoken uses simply borrow the name of the sweet for something else.
From the word’s history
The evidence packet records toffee as an alteration of taffy: the same kind of boiled sugar sweet, with the spelling taking a different route in Britain.
提供的來源記載 toffee 是 taffy 的變體寫法：指的是同一類把糖煮硬的糖果，只是拼法在英國走了另一條路。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this batch's evidence packet (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1132276883): "An alteration of taffy."
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Toffeenoun
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toffeenoun/ˈtɒfi/
- 1
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.
- 2
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.
- 3
Any kind of sweets; candy.
- 4
slangNonsense; rubbish.
- What a load of old toffee!
toffeeverb/ˈtɒfi/
- 1
To coat in toffee.
- The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.
- 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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。