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noun
1.
a chewy candy made of sugar or molasses boiled down, often with butter, nuts, etc.
2.
Informal. flattery.
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Taffy
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World English Dictionary
| taffy (ˈtæfɪ) | |
| —n , pl -fies | |
| 1. | (US), (Canadian) a chewy sweet made of brown sugar or molasses and butter, boiled and then pulled so that it becomes glossy |
| 2. | chiefly (US), (Canadian) a less common term for toffee |
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Word Origin & History
taffy
candy made from sugar or molasses, 1817, related to toffee, but of uncertain origin; perhaps associated with tafia (1763), a rum-like alcoholic liquor distilled from molasses, presumably of W.Indian or Malay origin (perhaps a Creole shortening of
EXPAND ratafia). On this theory, the candy would have been made from the syrup skimmed off the liquor during distillation.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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taffy
flavoured syrup candy of Europe and the Americas that is cooked and then rigorously worked during cooling into a hard, chewy, glossy mass. Although the great 19th-century demand for taffy gave way in the mid-20th century to the popularity of chocolates and caramels, taffy remained widely available in its original "penny candy" form of small, colourfully wrapped pieces.
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