confectionary vs toffee

confectionary

noun
  • A candy, sweetmeat; a confection. 

  • Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery. 

adj
  • Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production. 

  • Prepared as a confection. 

toffee

noun
  • Any kind of sweets; candy. 

  • A small, individual piece of toffee. 

  • A type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard. 

verb
  • To coat in toffee. 

How often have the words confectionary and toffee occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )