Today’s Words That Work: Toff

By Early To Rise | Wed, Jun 30, 2010 |

  

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Toff (TOF) — is an informal British word for a stylishly dressed, fashionable person, especially one who is or wants to be considered a member of the upper class.

Example (as used by Liesl Schillinger in a New York Times review of One Day by David Nicholls): “She’s an earnest, outspoken lefty. He’s a handsome, apolitical toff who ‘liked the word “bourgeois.”‘


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