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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 glossyplay

  Familiarity information: TAFFY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TAFFY (noun)


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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