| 单词 | almond toffee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasalmond toffee a. A sweet-meat made from sugar or treacle, butter, and sometimes a little flour, boiled together; often mixed with bruised nuts, as almond toffee or walnut toffee. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > toffee taffy1817 Everton toffee1822 toffeea1825 hardbake1825 stickjaw1827 tom trot1829 tameletjie1838 butterscotch1847 peanut candy1856 caramel1884 treacle toffee1885 Harrogate toffee1890 brittle1892 peanut brittle1892 saltwater taffy1894 brickle1907 spin1913 hokey-pokey1939 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Toughy, a coarse sweetmeat, composed of brown sugar and treacle; named from its toughness, though perhaps it should be spelled tuffy, and considered as another form of taffy, described in Wilbraham's Cheshire Dialect [1817] as compounded of the same ingredients. 1825 L. L. Cameron Seeds Greediness in Houlston Tracts I. No. 22. 2 Some shining sticky stuff, which in some countries children call tuffy. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To join for toffy’, to club for making toffy, a custom still very frequent amongst young persons. 1862 C. Dickens Let. 28 Jan. (1998) X. 25 I am going to bring the boys some Toffee. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly I. ii. 30 Is it sixpence you want to buy toffy with? < as lemmas |
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