| 单词 | toffee-nosed |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoffee-nosed toffee-nosed adj. slang snobbish, supercilious. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective] > snobbish airish1842 snobbish1850 head-in-air1888 high hat1924 toffee-nosed1925 snob1958 elitist1966 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 287 Toffee-nosed, stuck up. 1928 T. E. Lawrence Let. 20 Jan. (1938) 568 A premature ‘life’ will do more to disgust the select and superior people (the R.A.F. call them the ‘toffee-nosed’) than anything. 1960 K. Amis Take Girl like You iv. 60 She did not want any more chat, but could not think how to say so without running the risk of sounding both stagey and toffee-nosed. 1978 Radio Times 28 Jan. 17/2 Let Elkan Allan and the rest of the toffee-nosed critics sneer; I shall be watching Big Jim McLain this Sunday and so, I am sure, will a lot of other people. < as lemmas |
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