toffee
英 ['tɒfɪ]
美 ['tɔfi]
英語の語源
- toffee
- toffee: [19] Toffee is one of the mystery words of English. It is an alteration of an earlier taffy [19] (still current in American English), but where that came from is not known. The early 19thcentury spelling toughy suggests that it may have been derived from tough, in allusion to the sweet’s texture, but it is probably only a later folk-etymologizing rationalization. Another possibility is that it came from tafia ‘rumlike drink made from molasses’ [18], an alteration of ratafia [17], which was of West Indian Creole origin.
- toffee (n.)
- 1825, tuffy, toughy, southern British dialectal variant of taffy. Modern spelling recorded by 1843.
例文
- 1. The mixture will solidify into toffee .
- この混合物は凝固するとタフィノースになる。
- 2.The special treat was to eat maple toffee after meal.
- 楽しんでいるか、昼食後に楓糖太妃を食べるか。
- 3.The toffee was smooth and delicious.
- この太妃糖はおいしく食べられます。
- 4.She poked a toffee into my mouth.
- 彼女は私の口に太妃糖を詰め込んだ。
- 5.I wouldn 't go halves in the toffee and gingerbread on purpose to save the money.
- お金を節約するために、私は太妃糖とクッキーを人に分けようとしません。
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