toffee-nosed
/ˈtɒfɪnəʊzd/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈtɒfɪnəʊzd/
toffeenosed
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toffee - nosed -> toffee nosed
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
toffee /'tɒfi; US 'tↄ:fi/ (US also taffy /'tæfi/) n
(က) [U] တော်ဖီ။ a lump of toffee ❍ treacle toffee.
(ခ) [C] တော်ဖီ တုံးကလေး။ a tin of toffees.
❏ can't do sth for toffee [IDM ] (Brit infml ) မ…တတ် ဘူး။ She can't sing for toffee!
❏ toffee-apple (Brit ) (US candy apple ) n တုတ်ထိုး ပန်းသီးတော်ဖီ။
❏ toffee-nosed adj (Brit infml ) ဘဝင်ကိုင်သော။ အောက်ခြေ လွတ်သော။
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- ‘The ramekin dish was topped with slices of banana and strawberry, but underneath the fruit someone had been a little heavy-handed with the blowtorch, and what should have been crispy toffee was actually burnt sugar.’
- ‘They are chocolate sweets with chewy toffee in the middle.’
- ‘By the age of 10 I was boiling up fudge, toffee and Turkish delight with, it seemed to me, only the merest hint of adult supervision.’
- ‘Apart from sharing Ann's selection, I settled for a piece of toffee and coffee cake.’
- ‘Then, at age eighteen, I thought I had at long last found the final frontier in a now-crunchy, now-melty mouthful of coffee-walnut toffee.’
- ‘It was a combination of biscuit, toffee and chocolate with an icing decoration.’
- ‘The banoffee pie featured dry, stick-to-your-teeth pastry without any flavour of butter and runny toffee which tasted like barely-caramelised condensed milk.’
- ‘A caramel apple double-dipped in white chocolate and crunchy toffee is the stuff of dreams.’
- ‘Refrigerate until the toffee is firm, about one hour.’
- ‘As confectionery, they differ depending on the temperature at which they are cooked: fudge is the softest, toffee firmer and caramel almost brittle.’
- ‘They are served with arequipe, milk cooked with sugar until it resembles toffee.’
- ‘My one true passion at the time was to devour anything with abnormally large amounts of sugar, chocolate or toffee.’
- ‘Generations of Scots have been weaned on the snack, which is actually a stack of wafers sandwiched together with toffee and coated in chocolate.’
- ‘But it's heavenly with chocolate pudding, adding flavours of dates, raisins and burnt toffee.’
- ‘If you are going to make your own sugar syrup, do any hot sugar work or make toffee, just remember that it gets fearsomely hot.’
- ‘You'll be rewarded with deep flavor and candy that sets up perfectly every time, as in the case of our classic buttery almond toffee and our pretty cashew brittle.’
- ‘To begin with, it was all puddings and cakes and sweets, and I would make fudge, toffee, nougat.’
- ‘She put caramel, and rich chocolate frosting into one brownie!’
- ‘You can't buy chocolates, or toffee; flowers cost so much that I have to pick leaves instead.’
- ‘Traditional bonfire treats including black peas, baked potatoes, parkin, toffee apples and treacle toffee were also on offer.’
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