Taffy
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A soft, chewy candy made from boiled sugar, molasses, or corn syrup and butter. US, countable, uncountable
- 2 A Welshman. derogatory, slang, sometimes
- 3 chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy wordnet
- 4 Flattery. countable, informal, uncountable
"[…] if these statistices should seem to fail to tally with the facts, in places, do not nudge your neighbor, or press your foot upon his toes, or manifest, by any other sign, your awareness that taffy is being distributed."
- 5 Welsh person. UK, countable, derogatory, uncountable, usually
""Some people may find Taffy a bit derogatory but a lot of people are interested in displaying that on their vehicles. That's a way they can express their Welshness. But we haven't sold any plates with combinations of 'boyo'.""
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More examples"These days, the taffy costs a dollar a strip—20 times as much as it did in Sam Cortese’s day—and the candy is now also made in a little factory in town that ships it to taffy-lovers around the world."
Etymology
Probably related to tafia (“a type of rum”).
From Welsh Dafydd (“David”), a common Welsh name. Doublet of David. Or else from Welsh Taf, a river-name in South Wales.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.