toffy
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toffy (countable and uncountable, plural toffies)
- Alternative spelling of toffee
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toffy (comparative toffier, superlative toffiest)
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) Posh, upper-class; snooty.
- 2008 October 23, “The king of Corfu”, in The Economist:
- 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).