toff
noun/tɒf/
/tɑːf/
(British English, informal)- a way of referring to somebody from a high social class that shows that you do not approve of them
- What are you doing dressed up like a toff?
Word Originmid 19th cent.: perhaps an alteration of tuft, used to denote a gold tassel worn on the cap by titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge.Definitions on the go
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