taffy

/taf-ee/US // ˈtæf i //UK // (ˈtæfɪ) //

太妃糖

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural taf·fies.
- : a chewy candy made of sugar or corn syrup boiled down with butter or oil, pulled or stretched back and forth to incorporate air bubbles, then rolled, twisted, and cut into pieces.
- : Informal. flattery.

Examples

One is that, he said, this kind of phenomenon, which is called a carrying capacity — means that only so much can be produced because of these natural limits — could be stretched like taffy to cover the entire world.
From the District to New York, that charming little town of taffy and traffic will host us all.
His family went mask-free while watching an employee pull taffy inside La King’s Confectionery, an old-fashioned ice cream parlor and candy shop.
“The sun’s magnetic field lines can get complicated and twisted up like taffy in certain regions,” says Mary Hudson, a physicist at Dartmouth College.
I made a painting of the scene with Katy licking an ice cream cone in a taffy forest.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Self, among other publications.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, a devotee of 90210, Gossip Girl, and One Tree Hill, searches for answers.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Babble, among other publications.
Erin Wasson speaks with a slow, gravelly drawl, chewing on her words like sticky pieces of taffy.
It seems to me they look more like candy themselves, with their taffy hair and peppermint-striped bathing-suits.
Well make a hot drink and the cake and ice-cream, with taffy, ought to be enough in all conscience, especially on Thanksgiving.
An insufficient amount of sugar will result in tough, sour jelly, while too large a quantity will make the jelly taffy-like.
Still others, such as taffy, are pulled until light in color and then cut into small pieces with a pair of scissors.
Then, again, taffy made from white sugar may be varied by means of many delightful colors and flavors.

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Examples

One is that, he said, this kind of phenomenon, which is called a carrying capacity — means that only so much can be produced because of these natural limits — could be stretched like taffy to cover the entire world.

From the District to New York, that charming little town of taffy and traffic will host us all.

His family went mask-free while watching an employee pull taffy inside La King’s Confectionery, an old-fashioned ice cream parlor and candy shop.

“The sun’s magnetic field lines can get complicated and twisted up like taffy in certain regions,” says Mary Hudson, a physicist at Dartmouth College.

I made a painting of the scene with Katy licking an ice cream cone in a taffy forest.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Self, among other publications.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner, a devotee of 90210, Gossip Girl, and One Tree Hill, searches for answers.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Babble, among other publications.

Erin Wasson speaks with a slow, gravelly drawl, chewing on her words like sticky pieces of taffy.

It seems to me they look more like candy themselves, with their taffy hair and peppermint-striped bathing-suits.

Well make a hot drink and the cake and ice-cream, with taffy, ought to be enough in all conscience, especially on Thanksgiving.

An insufficient amount of sugar will result in tough, sour jelly, while too large a quantity will make the jelly taffy-like.

Still others, such as taffy, are pulled until light in color and then cut into small pieces with a pair of scissors.

Then, again, taffy made from white sugar may be varied by means of many delightful colors and flavors.