toff

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /tɒf/|/tɔːf/    美 /tɔf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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; […]

词形变化

toffs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
toffish toffy toffpot
相关词
la-di-da

词源

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