Toff

//tɒf// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An elegantly dressed person. obsolete

    "Last week down our alley came a toff, / Nice old geyser with a nasty cough, / Sees my missus, takes his topper off, / Quite in a gentlemanly way"

  2. 2
    informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person wordnet
  3. 3
    A person of the upper class or with pretensions to it, who usually communicates an air of superiority. Ireland, UK, derogatory

    "Now Freddy is young, practically twenty years younger than Higgins: he is a gentleman (or, as Eliza would qualify him, a toff), and speaks like one; […]"

Etymology

Probably an alteration of tuft, referring to the gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.

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