He's a posh toff.
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Toff
//tɒf//
Synonyms for "toff" (40 found)
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Noun(8 words)
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20 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- конте noun (1. (obsolete) An elegantly dressed person)
- франт noun (1. (obsolete) An elegantly dressed person)
Czech
2 entries- pracháč noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
- snob noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
Dutch
2 entries- banjer noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
- fijne mijnheer noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
French
1 entries- bourge noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
German
3 entries- Geck noun (1. (obsolete) An elegantly dressed person)
- Pinkel noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
- Stutzer noun (1. (obsolete) An elegantly dressed person)
Portuguese
4 entries- alta-roda noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
- bacana noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
- granfa noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
- grã-fino noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
Russian
2 entries- бе́лая кость noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
- дже́нтльмен noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
Spanish
4 entries- concheto noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
- gente de arriba noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
- pijo noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
- ricachón noun (2. (Britain, derogatory) A person of the upper class, or with pretensions to it)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
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
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The cabman scratched his head. "Well, he wasn't altogether such an easy gentleman to describe. I'd put him at forty years of age, and he was of a middle height, two or three inches shorter than you, sir. He was dressed like a toff, and he had a black beard, cut square at the end, and a pale face. I don't know as I could say more than that."
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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; […]
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