taffy

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taffy noun (plural taffies) [countable, uncountable]  American EnglishDF a type of soft chewy sweet 太妃糖，乳脂糖

Examples from the Corpus

taffy• Multicolored volcanic ash flows, long since hardened to jagged rock, reach into the sea like fantastic taffy mountains.• Lucky thing there was Old Chaostretching on like taffy, but in an effort to save her, it seemed.• To make taffy, to advertise taffy, to provide employment, to earn a profit, to inspire Otto Rossler?• Deterministic dynamical systems of three or more dimensions can exhibit behaviors of the type generated by the rotating taffy machine.• All is elastic as warm taffy, all is connected, nothing is independent.Taf·fy /ˈtæfi/ noun [countable] British English taboo  SANan offensive word for someone from Wales. Do not use this word. 威尔士佬〔对威尔士人的蔑称〕Origin taffy (1800-1900) Probably from toffee

taffy nounTaf·fy nounChineseSyllable  

of soft sweet Corpus type a chewy

Taffy
Taf·fy /ˈtæfi/ noun [countable] British English
an offensive word for someone from Wales

taffy
taffy noun (plural taffies) [uncountable and countable]American English a type of soft chewy sweet

taffyBrE /ˈtæfi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtæfi/ 🔊 noun (

plural

taffies) [uncountable, countable] (NAmE) a type of soft sweet/candy made of brown sugar boiled until it is very thick and given different shapes and colours 太妃糖；乳脂糖

TaffyBrE /ˈtæfi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtæfi/ 🔊 noun (

plural

Taffies) (also Taff BrE /tæf/ 🔊 NAmE /tæf/ 🔊) (BrE, informal, often offensive) a person from Wales 威尔士人