toff
A fashionable, upper-class gentleman; a dandy of rank.
“Look at the toff in the stalls, all diamond studs and waxed moustache.”
❦ Note: From ‘tuft’, the gold tassel worn by titled Oxford undergraduates; the toff was the swell of rank.
A fashionable, upper-class gentleman; a dandy of rank.
“Look at the toff in the stalls, all diamond studs and waxed moustache.”
❦ Note: From ‘tuft’, the gold tassel worn by titled Oxford undergraduates; the toff was the swell of rank.