toffee definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets [syn: brittle, toffee, toffy] Merriam Webster's also toffy noun (plural toffees; also ... Brit. a small piece of this. Phrases and idioms: 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. Etymology: earlier ...
toffee-nosed definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: snobbish ... Collin's Cobuild Dictionary If you say that someone is toffee-nosed, you disapprove of them because they have a high ...
... Reference Dictionary n. (pl. -ies) US 1 a confection like toffee. 2 insincere flattery. Etymology: 19th c.: orig. unkn. Webster's ... sugar and butter together with water. (AM; in BRIT, use toffee)