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Toffee-nosed

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Snobbish, condescending or aloof. Ireland, UK

    "Parkinson: You made films before, but the part that really made your name was Zulu, wasn't it […] and there of course—against type—you played the toff, you played the officer. Caine: I played the officer, yeah, and everybody thought I was like that. Everyone was so shocked when they met me, this like Cockney guy had played this toffee-nosed git."

Adjective
  1. 1
    snobbish; pretentiously superior wordnet

Etymology

Probably from toff or from toffee-nose + -ed.

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