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TAFFY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does taffy mean?
• TAFFY (noun)
The noun TAFFY has 1 sense:
1. chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy
Familiarity information: TAFFY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("taffy" is a kind of...):
candy; confect (a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "taffy"):
molasses taffy (taffy made of molasses)
Context examples
A long, thin streamer of gas and dust stretches like taffy from the galaxy's core and on into space.
(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)
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