toff

Definitions


[tɒf], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a rich or upper-class person


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Origin:
mid 19th century: perhaps an alteration of tuft, used to denote a gold tassel worn on the cap by titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge


[tɒf], (Verb)

Definitions:
- be smartly dressed
(e.g: he was all toffed up in officer's broadcloth)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 19th century: perhaps an alteration of tuft, used to denote a gold tassel worn on the cap by titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge




definition by Oxford Dictionaries