[U,C] a hard sticky sweet/candy made by heating sugar, butter and water together and allowing it to cool
IDIOMS
can't do sth for toffee (old-fashioned, BrE, informal) if sb can't do sth for toffee, they are very bad at doing it:
He can't dance for toffee!
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In this entry, toffee is tagged as noun.
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