toff

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Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun toff has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

toffn. [Etym. uncertain.].
     A fop; a beau; a swell.  Kipling.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

toff, n. & v. Brit. sl.
--n. a distinguished or well-dressed person; a dandy.
--v.tr. (foll. by up) dress up smartly.

Etymology
perh. a perversion of tuft = titled undergraduate (from the gold tassel formerly worn on the cap)

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