| 单词 | toffishness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈtoffishness ˈtoffishness n. behaviour characteristic of a ‘toff’. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > style or quality of fashion1604 mode1668 bon-ton1747 haut ton1801 swellism1840 West Endism1841 swellishness1863 toffishness1873 mundanity1892 swellness1894 1873 J. Greenwood In Strange Company 43 Thick slices, bear in mind: anything under an inch thick would be regarded with contempt by the bony young barrow~man, and perhaps with an uncomfortable suspicion that you have designs to inveigle him into the detestable ways of gentility. He calls it ‘toffishness’. c1876 J. Albery Dram. Wks. (1939) II. 105 But only because his toffishness wexes me. < as lemmas |
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