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   Tof·fee-nosed

   /ˈtɑfi ˌnoʊzd/

   

   adjective

   • 1. pretentiously superior; snobbish: informal British "toffee-nosed creeps who think they're the same as royalty"

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   What does toffee-nosed mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! toffee-nosed meaning: 1. People who are toffee-nosed consider themselves to be better than other people, especially than…. Learn more.

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   Why is Toffee a noun?

   • The reason the noun toffee is used in those two words is unclear. This noun perhaps refers in fact to the informal British-English noun toff, which was originally used, in the mid-19th century, among people of lower social status to designate a fashionable upper-class person.

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   How did 'toffee-nosed' get its name?

   • Birks, in her own style, tried to make the magazine more much further mainstream, not just for the toffee-nosed or the literary. Other origins include the abbreviation of toffee-nosed. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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   What is the earliest occurrence of toffy-nose?

   • The earliest occurrence of toffy-nose that I have found is from the account of a police-court case, published in the South Western Star (London, England) of Friday 3rd March 1933: P.C. Jones, 231L, said that at 10.30 on Thursday night he saw prisoners playing two instruments. They were under the influence of drink and were not playing properly.

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   toffee-nosed. behaving as if you are better than other people, especially those of a lower social class synonym snobbish. Definition of toffee-nosed adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   Definitions of. toffee-nosed. adjective. snobbish; pretentiously superior. synonyms: private.

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   May 16, 2022 · In British English:– the colloquial noun toffee-nose designates a snob or supercilious person;– the colloquial adjective toffee-nosed means snobbish or supercilious. The reason the noun toffee is used in those two words is unclear.

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   If you say that someone is toffee-nosed, you disapprove of them because they have a high opinion of themselves and a low opinion of other people.

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   What does the adjective toffee-nosed mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective toffee-nosed . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ˈtoffee-ˌnosed adjective British English informal a toffee-nosed person thinks that they are better than other people because of their social position – used to show disapproval Examples from the Corpus toffee-nosed • I thought he was a very toffee-nosed man, a good draughtsman in a ...