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Definition of toff in English: toffnoun tɒftɑf British derogatory, informal A rich or upper-class person. Example sentencesExamples - Tatton in Cheshire came top, and it is amusing to learn that certain Sheffield residents are better off than the toffs from Kensington and Chelsea.
- By making this pair of public school boys the figureheads of the pro-hunt lobby, the media is reinforcing the view that hunt supporters are toffs clinging to the last of the privileges enjoyed by the aristocracy.
- Turn back the clocks a few months and we were worrying about traffic congestion, or calculating how to make a fast buck at the expense of well-off southern toffs.
- It's often perceived as an aristocratic indulgence, a sport for toffs and the idle rich.
- Leaving aside terrier men, for whom the label ‘lower class’ might have been invented, the field and its followers included only a tiny handful of people who could fairly be described as toffs.
- We were stationed in Henley-on-Thames, a beautiful riverside town best known for its annual Regatta and the huge brawls between toffs, tourists and anarchists on Henley Bridge which marked the start of the boat racing.
- You may see it as arrogant toffs showing off; but I see the English country house and its surrounding parkland as one of the great wonders of the world.
- Maybe toffs aren't offensive as long as they're scruffy?
- Reports suggest some southern toffs plan to stay at home rather than venture north of Watford, scared by tales of chilly climes, cloth caps and whippets.
- ‘Well, I keep on reading that the toffs and the working classes get on well together,’ he says.
- Yet by the time he got to the track, old money had been scared away by new money and the sport was a far cry from the old days when the people who raced cars were toffs, and so were those who went to watch.
- A generation of rich and eccentric toffs with more money than sense block out what's happening in the world by immersing themselves in one party after another.
- A ban won't just affect a few toffs and their rich country chums.
- And even in London, plenty of young toffs would have been wearing dinner jackets.
- South Swindon people have a lot more in common with the fox than they do with toffs on horseback.
- Back in the real world, Oxford is not just the turf of toffs and boffs: it was a major car-manufacturing centre until the terminal decline of the British car industry and is now a thriving centre of service industries.
- I'm here to show them that they have got it all wrong and that we are not all titled toffs.
- People who don't play cricket perceive it as a toffs' game, even at a centre of toffs like Cambridge
- But the countryside marchers were not toffs - they were real people, hard working people, genuine people.
- Grand ambition: to meet a rich toff and get married
Synonyms fop, beau, man about town, bright young thing, glamour boy, rake
verb tɒf be toffed upBritish dated, informal Be smartly dressed. he was all toffed up in officer's broadcloth Example sentencesExamples - One of the best parts of the movie, for me at any rate, was when Eliza Doolittle gets all toffed up for the races.
- However, they bailed by cellphone shortly thereafter, after I'd already got toffed up and driven to the location.
- It was great to see a photo of you all toffed up too, you glamorous thing!
- He presided over my graduation ceremony last year, toffed up in some ridiculous gown like he's the most educated man in Britain, rather than a bit of a prat.
- Later that day Nick's all toffed up and on his way to meet Leo.
- And there is not much chance that she toffed herself up and pretended to be a lady!
Origin Mid 19th century: perhaps an alteration of tuft, used to denote a gold tassel worn on the cap by titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge. This is perhaps an alteration of tuft, once a term for titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge, who wore a gold tassel on their caps—social climbers and toadies were called tuft-hunters from the mid 18th century. The associations of the word may have influenced toffee-nosed or ‘snobbish’, which was originally military slang. Toffee seems to have been a desirable commodity to soldiers during the First World War— not be able to do something for toffee, or be totally incompetent at it, is first recorded in 1914 in the mouth of a British ‘Tommy’. Toffee (early 19th century) is an alteration of taffy (early 19th century), now mainly used in North America for a sweet resembling toffee. The Taffy that is a name for a Welshman is quite different, representing a supposed Welsh pronunciation of the name David or Dafydd.
Rhymes boff, cough, doff, far-off, off, quaff, roll-on roll-off, scoff, telling-off, trough Definition of toff in US English: toffnountäftɑf British derogatory, informal A rich or upper-class person. Example sentencesExamples - Maybe toffs aren't offensive as long as they're scruffy?
- It's often perceived as an aristocratic indulgence, a sport for toffs and the idle rich.
- Turn back the clocks a few months and we were worrying about traffic congestion, or calculating how to make a fast buck at the expense of well-off southern toffs.
- And even in London, plenty of young toffs would have been wearing dinner jackets.
- A generation of rich and eccentric toffs with more money than sense block out what's happening in the world by immersing themselves in one party after another.
- Grand ambition: to meet a rich toff and get married
- Tatton in Cheshire came top, and it is amusing to learn that certain Sheffield residents are better off than the toffs from Kensington and Chelsea.
- People who don't play cricket perceive it as a toffs' game, even at a centre of toffs like Cambridge
- Leaving aside terrier men, for whom the label ‘lower class’ might have been invented, the field and its followers included only a tiny handful of people who could fairly be described as toffs.
- I'm here to show them that they have got it all wrong and that we are not all titled toffs.
- ‘Well, I keep on reading that the toffs and the working classes get on well together,’ he says.
- Yet by the time he got to the track, old money had been scared away by new money and the sport was a far cry from the old days when the people who raced cars were toffs, and so were those who went to watch.
- Reports suggest some southern toffs plan to stay at home rather than venture north of Watford, scared by tales of chilly climes, cloth caps and whippets.
- South Swindon people have a lot more in common with the fox than they do with toffs on horseback.
- You may see it as arrogant toffs showing off; but I see the English country house and its surrounding parkland as one of the great wonders of the world.
- We were stationed in Henley-on-Thames, a beautiful riverside town best known for its annual Regatta and the huge brawls between toffs, tourists and anarchists on Henley Bridge which marked the start of the boat racing.
- Back in the real world, Oxford is not just the turf of toffs and boffs: it was a major car-manufacturing centre until the terminal decline of the British car industry and is now a thriving centre of service industries.
- A ban won't just affect a few toffs and their rich country chums.
- By making this pair of public school boys the figureheads of the pro-hunt lobby, the media is reinforcing the view that hunt supporters are toffs clinging to the last of the privileges enjoyed by the aristocracy.
- But the countryside marchers were not toffs - they were real people, hard working people, genuine people.
Synonyms fop, beau, man about town, bright young thing, glamour boy, rake
Origin Mid 19th century: perhaps an alteration of tuft, used to denote a gold tassel worn on the cap by titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge. |