toffy
English
Pronunciation
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Noun
toffy (countable and uncountable, plural toffies)
- Alternative spelling of toffee
Etymology 2
toff + -y
Adjective
toffy (comparative toffier, superlative toffiest)
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) Posh, upper-class; snooty.
- 2007, Craig Sherborne, Muck, Victoria University Press, →ISBN, page 16:
- As for that accent of his, his speaking in a toffy English way, it's got toffier since we've known him.
- 2008, "The king of Corfu", The Economist, 23 October 2008:
- Rather it lurks in the now-republished photos of Mr Osborne in the Fauntleroy outfit of the Bullingdon club, a toffy Oxford society of which he was a member at the same time as Mr Rothschild (and of which David Cameron, the Tory leader, is also an alumnus).
- 2012, Paddy O'Reilly, The Fine Color of Rust, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 44:
- She heaves an exasperated sigh that would do a shop assistant in a toffy dress emporium proud.
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See also
- toffee-nosed