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Definition of toff noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

toff

noun
 
/tɒf/
 
/tɑːf/
(British English, informal)
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  1. 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.
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