toffy

plural toffies

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of toffee.

comparative toffier · superlative toffiest

1. AustraliaNew ZealandUKderogatoryPosh, upper-class; snooty.

   She heaves an exasperated sigh that would do a shop assistant in a toffy dress emporium proud.

   2012, Paddy O'Reilly, The Fine Color of Rust, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 44

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   As for that accent of his, his speaking in a toffy English way, it's got toffier since we've known him.

   2007, Craig Sherborne, Muck, Victoria University Press, →ISBN, page 16

   Rather it lurks in the now-republished photos of Mr Osborne in the Fauntleroy outfit of the Bullingdon club, a toffy Oxford society of which he was a member at the same time as Mr Rothschild (and of which David Cameron, the Tory leader, is also an alumnus).

   2008 October 23, “The king of Corfu”, in The Economist