toff

American  

[tof] / tɒf /

noun

British Informal.

1. a stylishly dressed, fashionable person, especially one who is or wants to be considered a member of the upper class.

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toff British  

/ tɒf /

noun

1. slang a rich, well-dressed, or upper-class person, esp a man

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Etymology

Origin of toff

First recorded in 1850–55; perhaps variant of tuft

Example Sentences

One minute he’d be talking like a toff, and the next like a cop.

From New York Times • May 27, 2022

Citibank internship led to Deutsche Bank job, and after a few years she was an equity derivatives trader at Deutsche, holding her own against the toff sharks of the City of London.

From The Verge • May 12, 2021

John is still into Bulgaria and piano-playing, has survived a nasty fall from a horse, and resents having been typecast as a Tory toff.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 27, 2019

Set during the Crusades, the film is at heart just another superhero origin story, at first presenting its spoiled, upper-class toff of a protagonist as a disaffected war veteran.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2018

That spirit alarmed and discomfited many Europeans, toff and peasant alike.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann