toffee.html - n.
(also toffy) (pl. toffees or toffies)
1 a kind of firm or hard sweet softening when sucked or chewed, made by boiling sugar, butter, etc.
2 Brit. a small piece of this.

for toffee sl. (prec. by can't etc.) (denoting incompetence) at all (they couldn't sing for toffee). toffee-apple an apple with a thin coating of toffee. toffee-nosed esp. Brit. sl. snobbish, pretentious. [earlier TAFFY]

toffee.html - n.
(also toffy) (pl. toffees or toffies)
1 a kind of firm or hard sweet softening when sucked or chewed, made by boiling sugar, butter, etc.
2 Brit. a small piece of this.

for toffee sl. (prec. by can't etc.) (denoting incompetence) at all (they couldn't sing for toffee). toffee-apple an apple with a thin coating of toffee. toffee-nosed esp. Brit. sl. snobbish, pretentious. [earlier TAFFY]

toffee.html - n. & v.
Brit. sl. --n.

a distinguished or well-dressed person; a dandy.

--v.

tr. (foll. by up) dress up smartly. [perh. a perversion of tuft = titled undergraduate (from the gold tassel formerly worn on the cap)]

toffee.html - n.
(also toffy) (pl. toffees or toffies)
1 a kind of firm or hard sweet softening when sucked or chewed, made by boiling sugar, butter, etc.
2 Brit. a small piece of this.

for toffee sl. (prec. by can't etc.) (denoting incompetence) at all (they couldn't sing for toffee). toffee-apple an apple with a thin coating of toffee. toffee-nosed esp. Brit. sl. snobbish, pretentious. [earlier TAFFY]

toffee.html - n. & v.
Brit. sl. --n.

a distinguished or well-dressed person; a dandy.

--v.

tr. (foll. by up) dress up smartly. [perh. a perversion of tuft = titled undergraduate (from the gold tassel formerly worn on the cap)]

toffee.html - n.
(also toffy) (pl. toffees or toffies)
1 a kind of firm or hard sweet softening when sucked or chewed, made by boiling sugar, butter, etc.
2 Brit. a small piece of this.

for toffee sl. (prec. by can't etc.) (denoting incompetence) at all (they couldn't sing for toffee). toffee-apple an apple with a thin coating of toffee. toffee-nosed esp. Brit. sl. snobbish, pretentious. [earlier TAFFY]