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toffish

/ ˈtɒfɪʃ /

adjective

  1. informal.
    belonging to or characteristic of the upper class
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

From Time

"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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