toffs

Noun

toff (plural toffs)

1. (obsolete) An elegantly dressed person.
   • Last week down our alley came a toff, / Nice old geyser with a nasty cough, / Sees my missus, takes his topper off, / Quite in a gentlemanly way1899, Rudyard Kipling, “Judson and the Empire”, in Many Inventions, New York: D. Appleton & Company, page 398

   Synonyms:

   macaroni, popinjay, swell, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb

2. (Ireland, UK, derogatory) A person of the upper class or with pretensions to it, who usually communicates an air of superiority.
   • Now Freddy is young, practically twenty years younger than Higgins: he is a gentleman (or, as Eliza would qualify him, a toff), and speaks like one; […]1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion. Sequel: What Happened Afterwards.”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, page...

   Synonyms:

   nob, swell, yah

   Antonyms:

   oik, pleb