toffee apple
English edit
Etymology edit
The weapon is named after the food item, having a similar shape, i.e. a sphere with attached stick or handle.
Noun edit
toffee apple (plural toffee apples)
- (chiefly Britain, New Zealand) A candy apple.
- Synonym: (US) candy apple
- Toffee apples and fairy floss are often sold as fairground snacks.
- (Britain, historical, slang) A kind of British trench mortar used in World War I.
- 2014, Richard Baber, The SOTCW World War I Compendium:
- Here we would find, perhaps, three 18-pounder guns dug in as antitank defences supplemented by 60 lb "toffee apple" trench mortar bombs buried as makeshift anti-tank mines.
Translations edit
(candy apple):
candy apple — see candy apple