[ noun ] chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy <noun.food>
Taffy \Taf"fy\, n. [Prov. E. taffy toffy.] 1. A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans. [Written also, in England, {toffy}.]
2. Flattery; soft phrases. [Slang]
The Adagio of the Sonata No. 17 and the Largo appassionato of the Sonata No. 2 were taffy pulls, however.
They might have had a taffy pull to amuse themselves during long winter evenings.