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toffish
/ ˈtɒfɪʃ /
adjective
- informal.belonging to or characteristic of the upper class
Example Sentences
His hair was quiffed waxy like hair on old-fashioned film stars, but he didn't look toffish.
He starts out as a small tradesman nervously entertaining, along with his mercilessly bullied wife, a toffish bank manager and a middle-class architect.
A photograph from his student days showing him attired in the distinctive tailcoat worn by members of the Bullingdon, the irremediably toffish Oxford dining club, has been suppressed in a piece of news management that spotlights just how sensitive an issue class can be.
"But," continued Peckover, "to be a butterfly in town you want a lot of dust on your wings; and when it comes to dressing a bit toffish, treating your friends, especially the ladies—and they've been my ruin"—he interjected with complacent self-reproach—"doing the Halls regular, and tooling your best girl out to Richmond or the Welsh Harp of a Sunday, why, five-and-thirty bob a week don't go far."
Brighton’s too toffish for whelks.
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