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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Hence toffer = a fashionable whore ; tofficky = dressy, showy, gritty (q.V.):
toffishness= side (q.v.). c. 1868. Arthur Lloyd, Music HallSong, ' The Shoreditch
Toff ' []. 1868. Temple Bar, xxiv. 538.9. Moll...a flashtail ... who goes about the
streets at ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Cf.: tofficky. Showy; vulgarly dressy: low: ca. 1860—1910. (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.
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Stylish; SWELL: resp. from ca 1873, when toffishness occurs in Greenwood's
Strange Company; 1901, Jerome K.Jerome; toffy, ob., ex TOFFICKY. toft . A
variant, prob. the imm. source of TOFF, 1: ca 1850–1910. If not TOFF debased—
and the ...
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The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson
“A truly shameful vignette of almost super- human undergraduate arrogance,
toffishness and twittishness. But at the time you felt it was wonderful to be going
round, swanking it up. Or was it? Actually I remember the dinners being
incredibly ...
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Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson
Far from denying his toffishness, he played up to it in such an amusing way that
hardly anyone held it against him. He was at once gloriously traditional, and
gloriously capable, unlike Douglas-Home and Hurd, of communicating with
people ...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Stra to Z
Greenwood, Strange Company. Slices . . . under an inch thick would be regarded
with contempt . . . per* haps with an uncomfortable suspicion ... of the detestable
ways of gentility. He [a coster) calls it toffishness. 1879. Punchy 3 May, aoi. i.
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1904
He calls it ".toffishness." He is peculiar in his views in this respect. 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 ...
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Monstre gai (book 2) Malign fiesta (book 3)
... of where Mannock and Pullman were standing; they edged their way to the
front, but had their toes trodden on and found themselves in unsavoury proximity
with a stunted rabble, determined to see, and resenting the toffishness of
Mannock.
one outside New Delhi to have one. Another example of toffishness came at the
recent service in Westminster Abbey to commemorate thirty years of NATO. While
Labour and Liberal MPs all turned up in morning dress with striped trousers and
...
... tiare (Tahitian flower) 1914 toe-to-toe, attrib. 1958 Tibeto-Chinese 1910 toffee-
apple 1925 tick, sb. (= applied derisively to a toffee-nose, sb. (slang) 1943 person
; isolated 163 1 quot. in toffee-nosed 1925 O.E.D.) 1909 toffishness 1876 tick, v.
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General Election 2015: Bullingdon tailor prevents access to picture …
Mr Johnson added: “This is a truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness. “But at the time you felt it was ... «The Independent, 五月 15»
General Election 2015: Photographic history of Bullingdon Club …
... telling the BBC in 2013: “This is a truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness. But at the time you felt ... «The Independent, 五月 15»
Political comedy comes to the Playhouse
... entitlement amongst members of the ruling classes, highlighting what Boris Johnson himself described as “superhuman arrogance, toffishness and twitishness ... «Salisbury Journal, 三月 15»
The Riot Club film: Why this portrayal of drunken Oxford University …
The Oxford of The Riot Club, and of the Bullingdon – that “truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness” ... «The Independent, 九月 14»
Who's a Wally now? New book goes looking for Boris Johnson
... of the Bullingdon Club at Oxford University, readers will be encouraged to scour a scene of revelry to find Boris “amongst the toffishness and twittishness”. «Evening Standard, 七月 14»
Simon Willis: 'Inequality is bad – and meritocrats can be really …
... membership of the Bullingdon, which, in Johnson's own words, was a "vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness". «The Guardian, 五月 14»
Conservative university associations need to shed 'toffish' image
Part of the problem is a perception of toffishness and that these associations are closed clubs, almost exclusively consisting of white men, more often than not ... «Telegraph.co.uk, 五月 14»
Class war won't wash, Ed - you're too posh
Balls will never pass up an opportunity for taunting the Tories about their toffishness and out-of-touch-ness, accusing them of promoting only the interests of their ... «The Commentator, 五月 14»
Donkeys' Years director Lisa Spirling on new Rose Theatre show
Boris, now older and wiser, has since dismissed the Bullingdon as a “shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and ... «Your Local Guardian, 一月 14»
Annie Brown: Bullingdon club Tories are turning off female voters
... Bullingdon photograph, Johnson admitted that it was “a truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness”. «Scottish Daily Record, 九月 13»
