Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sweet, chewy candy of molasses or brown sugar boiled until very thick and then pulled with the hands or by machine until the candy is glossy and holds its shape.
- noun Informal Flattery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coarse kind of candy, made of sugar or molasses boiled down and then cooled in shallow pans, often mixed with the meats of various kinds of nuts, as almonds, etc.
- noun Hence Crude compliment or flattery; cajolery; blarney; soft soap.
- noun A Welshman.
- To give taffy to; prevail upon by means of flattery: as, he was taffied into yielding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans.
- noun Slang Flattery; soft phrases.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A soft, chewy
candy made from boiledmolasses orbrown sugar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This colored "taffy" is cut into circles about the size of a tortilla, and hung on a clothesline to dry out a bit more.
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This colored "taffy" is cut into circles about the size of a tortilla, and hung on a clothesline to dry out a bit more.
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Wyndham-Price even paused to joke that Georgia's saltwater taffy is better than Utah's.
NaBloPoMo: A Love Letter to Joss Whedon trinfaneb 2008
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These look just like my favorite salt water taffy from the coast!
Jelly Rolls! Jelly Rolls! Cracking! Day Four Anne-Marie 2007
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On bad days a packet of splenda will be tempting (skip it), but I’ve found saltwater taffy from the Candy Baron in San Francisco, fresh fruit from a client breakfast, and even chicken liver pate … hey, I made that!
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"This is organ grinder, calling taffy pull, over."
Earth Fire Ahern, Jerry 1984
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Domingo for its excellent "dulce de leche," a kind of milk taffy, which is well made elsewhere in the Republic, but is better in Azua as it is here prepared from goat's milk.
Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich
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Chewing taffy, which is explained in the accompanying recipe, is a candy of this kind.
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She smiled at him again, as if his appreciation of her taffy was a bond of good fellowship between them.
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The taffy is a lovely purple, and it's the consistency of melted taffy.
reesetee commented on the word taffy
National Taffy Day: May 24. (National Go to the Dentist to Have Your Fillings Replaced Day: May 25.)
November 8, 2007
yarb commented on the word taffy
Also, slang for a Welshman.
May 1, 2008