10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOFFISH»
Discover the use of
toffish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
toffish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Tall hats are toffish in Costerdom : so are starched shirt-collars ; and as for gloves
, sooner than wear a pair a costermonger would be seen carrying an umbrella.
To affect thin bread and butter is I) 2 A COW-CROSS TEA PARTY. 43.
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Antichrist's Armour-Bearer disarm'd: or, the Christian ...
... the Compilers os our Pa ers, ww.--ur--r-Wv .".\"'''" ' \\ *' . - ".'V "a he is pleased to
ex ress himself thus, " - ow, ' ". that such shoul enjoy their Dignity in the " Church (
a Toffish Trelazjok Term) and in " the mean Time, as so Fmany Etd'as and Ve-' ...
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From the Beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First, ...
... as far as lawfully I may: With my Life' OWer ' and Estate, the true Reforrn'd
Trotestant Religion, express'd in the Do* ctrine of the Church of England, against
all To cry, and Toffish Inno' 'vation within this Realm, contrary to the said Do rine;
...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
(H., 2nd ed) Ex toff, 1. toffish; toffy. Stylish; 'swell': resp. from ca. 1873, when
toffishness occurs in Greenwood's Strange Company;1901, Jerome K. Jerome (
OED); toffil, 0b., ex tofficky. Toffs, the. The Corinthian Casuals AFC; founded 1883
, they ...
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Some Remarks Historical Collections with an Answer to the ...
It seemsv this Tictz'sh King and the Toffish Bishops of St. Andrew's were very kind
to **the "Pandan Culdeer. a Malcolm theThird and his Queen, I" tho' bred in Top/
ly Countries, and most K willing to advance the interest of Rome, but '4 very ...
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The Qumran Diary: Vi veri veniversum vivus vici
... these are more than drawings ” Speaking with the kind of refined accent blue-
collar Glaswegians regarded as 'toffish,' he explained that the pictorials were
hieroglyphs and went on to provide some of their meanings before suggesting
that, ...
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Daniel Jones - Selected Works
... always pronounce in the same way as their teachers. In London, and I suppose
in other big centres, the children in elementary schools are not very fond of their
teachers' way of pronouncing. In London they call it 'talking toffish/posh'. and ...
Daniel Jones, Beverley Collins, Inger M. Mees, 2002
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Cougar: Ecology and Conservation
Fund for Animals v Oregon Dep'tofFish & Wildlife 94 Or.App. 211 (Or. App. 1988).
Felis concolor v U.S. Forest Service No. 89-6428-E, 1990 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9498 (
D. Or. July 12, 1990). (Continued) Date/State Plaintiffs/Defendants (Citation If ...
Maurice Hornocker, Sharon Negri, 2009
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0.8 0 1.2 1.4 Income per fisherman income, yf , on the horizontal axis and
productivity, f, on the vertical axis. This equation specifies that a fisherman can
never ...
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The Way We Wore: A Life in Threads
This was originally a garment worn by West End swells asa totem of Toffish
superiority, but one purloined by working class kidsto flout theirlowly social
standing, just like the Tedsand theirappropriation ofupper class Edwardianmotifs.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOFFISH»
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toffish is used in the context of the following news items.
The Vote review – James Graham's all-star election-night farce
But there is a host of memorable cameos from some fine actors, including Bill Paterson as a disgruntled Scottish caretaker, Rosalie Craig as a toffish banker's ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Dear Lupin review: "It didn't make me laugh or cry" at Cambridge …
The senior of the two, James, has the most gravitas, the most ease, while Jack (best known so far for playing Jack Whitehall's toffish, gilet-wearing mate in E4's ... «Cambridge News, May 15»
Wolf Hall, episode 3, review: 'better and darker'
And when Anne's toffish former suitor Harry Percy (Harry Lloyd) tried to make trouble, Cromwell gave him short shrift. “The world is not run from where you think it ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
The Shoemaker's Holiday review – cobblers drama gets a first-rate …
... their implications and lets Lacy off lightly but there's a telling moment in this production when Josh O'Connor as the toffish deserter guiltily confronts the legless ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
Andrew Mitchell: the wrong sort of snob
It seemingly demonstrated to the public that the Toffish Tories thought the police to be beneath them. Little wonder that the Police Federation, from its decision to ... «Spiked, Dec 14»
Charlotte Dujardin: 'It's insane to have won all those things'
Her name may fit the posh central‑casting assumptions that go along with equestrianism, but Dujardin was born in un-toffish Enfield, and sounds like it. «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 14»
The Great Fire dies out with a -52% drop from first episode
... offering, The Great Fire (9pm), which divided its characters into either salt-of-the-earth types with sooty make-up or toffish nightmares in garish man-wigs. «MediaTel Newsline, Nov 14»
Trickle-down economics WORKS: SpaceShipTwo is a PRIME …
Sometimes it doesn't work very well: various toffish Army officers developed the luge and skeleton up in the Alps and that's still very much a minority sport ... «Register, Nov 14»
Salisbury Playhouse announce Spring 2015 season.
Based on Oxford's elite Bullingdon Club, which counts David Cameron and Boris Johnson among its former members, Posh features a group of toffish young ... «WhatsOnStage.com, Nov 14»
Bully Boy will batter your senses
It is carried out by a toffish Falklands veteran, who is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But despite being poles ... «The Copenhagen Post, Oct 14»
