EuroLex/E/Toffee

toffee


 * Original language: English
 * Original form and meaning: n./cp 1 'a kind of firm and hard sweet softening when sucked or chewed, made by boiling sugar, butter etc.'

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


 * Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.


 * Information on Other Languages: Icelandic: toffi < karamella [= English], mid20c, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; Russian: toffi, ininfluenced, mid20c, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Bulgarian: tofi/toffee, 1990s, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: modern;

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