toff

noun
🔊/tɒf/
🔊/tɑːf/
(British English, informal)
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  1. a way of referring to somebody from a high social class that shows that you do not approve of them纨绔子弟;花花公子
    • What are you doing dressed up like a toff?你在做什么,像个笨拙的打扮?
    Word Originmid 19th cent.: perhaps an alteration of tuft, used to denote a gold tassel worn on the cap by titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge.