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词组 toff
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toff
noun
1
a person who is, or appears to be, of a superior social status or well-to-do. From 'tuft' which, in 1670, was a gold tassel worn by titled undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge, and, by 1755, was university slang for a person of rank and title and hence down the social scale to 'swell' and 'nob'. In 1865 there was a music hall song entitled 'The Shoreditch Toff' by Arthur Lloyd UK, 1851.
2
a completely reliable and dependable person AUSTRALIA, 1989
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