toff

1. (obsolete) An elegantly dressed person.Examples: "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 way"; "The cabman scratched his head. "Well, he wasn't altogether such an easy gentleman to describe. I'd put him at forty years of age, and he was of a middle height, two or three inches shorter than you, sir. He was dressed like a toff, and he had a black beard, cut square at the end, and a pale face. I don't know as I could say more than that.""Synonyms: macaroni, popinjay, swell, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buckobsolete

2. (UK, Ireland, derogatory) A person of the upper class or with pretensions to it, who usually communicates an air of superiority.Examples: "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; […]"; "‘Well, I got Parkes for one, and I got Atkinson for two, and got Ward of Dawson Street. Fine old chap he is, too—regular old toff, old Conservative! “But isn’t your candidate a Nationalist?” said he.[…]’"; "I came home first class—up the front end with the toffs—semi-anaesthetised throughout the trip by caviar and free champagne—and to hell with frugality and the conservation of resources."Synonyms: nob, swell, yahAntonyms: oik, plebIrelandUKderogatory