Toff

Quick meaning: Toff is a noun meaning (UK, Ireland, derogatory) A person of the upper class or with pretensions to it, who usually communicates an air of superiority.

Meaning

(UK, Ireland, derogatory) A person of the upper class or with pretensions to it, who usually communicates an air of superiority.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) An elegantly dressed person.

Example Sentences

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

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; […]

I came home first class—up the front end with the toffs—semi-anaesthetised throughout the trip by caviar and free champagne—and to hell with frugality and the conservation of resources.

George Martin always seemed to me to be a "toff" and a gentleman even though his roots, like many of us, were in the common people. George has a touch of class that is quite impressive.

Word Forms

• toffs

Synonyms for toff

Depending on context, synonyms include macaroni, popinjay, swell, barbermonger, blade, blood.

Antonyms for toff

Common opposites include oik, pleb.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nob, gent, totty, tootsie, tufthunter, tottie.

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