toffee-nosed
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of toffee-nosed
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Gold wrote not so much in sentences and paragraphs as in litanies: cascades of facts, of visual and tactile sensations, of wild references that ricocheted from the toffee-nosed to the profane.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 24, 2018
Yet this hard-nosed apprehension was Mr Coulson’s big contribution to the rather toffee-nosed Tory operation.
From Economist ● Jun. 26, 2014
What they say: "Guitarist Freddie Cowan is so toffee-nosed he's 14th in line to the throne and gets carried to gigs on a sedan chair."
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2012
He helped popularise the great working-class riposte to the toffee-nosed union code but many decried him as a northern caricature.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2010
People posting comments on U.S. newspaper websites have called Hayward a "jerk" with a "toffee-nosed accent."
From Reuters ● Jun. 1, 2010
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