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toff (täf, tôf)

noun

Brit., Informal a fashionable, upper-class person; esp., a dandy

Etymology: < toft, var. of tuft, slang term for “titled undergraduate,” in reference to gold tassel on the caps of aristocratic students

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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