Many would surmise it is from toffee-nosed or the like. From Wordnik.com. [Dale's Academy of Political Correction: Ban Word 'Toff'] Reference
"There's none whatsoever that this is 'toffee-nosed Lymington'.". From Wordnik.com. [Is Lymington the snootiest town in Britain?] Reference
"I expect the toffee-nosed bugger can't unbend even as far as that.". From Wordnik.com. [Every living thing]
After all these years I finally learn the meaning of the insult "toffee-nosed.". From Wordnik.com. ["It cannot be gainsaid..."] Reference
'I thought you'd be rather toffee-nosed and cool, and I wouldn't have blamed you.'. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Cert]
“I got to the page where reference was made to a ‘toffee-nosed twit’,” she said. From Wordnik.com. [A little more creeping censorship: the T word | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"] Reference
How about "What makes you think you know anything at all about New York, you toffee-nosed, blue-blooded git?". From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: The New York Times gives Harold Ford, Jr. enough rope] Reference
Woman alone, happy life gone, nothing but drudgery, boredom, hatred very likely of toffee-nosed old scroungers. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
Not Mullett, but his half-asleep, disgruntled, toffee-nosed cow of a wife peevishly demanding to know who it was. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Frost]
None of that toffee-nosed British separation of the classes for us, with tall, reedy (ph) aristocrats and lumpy regular folk. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 3, 2005] Reference
The builder flapped his right hand in a gesture of despair, said, “Bloody toffee-nosed creep,” and retreated down the steps, carrying his stepladder. From Wordnik.com. [Portobello] Reference
It will be quite an experience, and something to tell Hamish, who is quite sickeningly toffee-nosed these days since he went into long trousers and learned the small guitar. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Delft Blue]
“Is this what we pay our rates for,” asked thousands of people pretending to be more enraged than they really were by this disgusting cash handout to some toffee-nosed London tart. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
My prediction: a whole new craze for dressing and acting like a "toff" (a toffee-nosed git, i.e., upper-class person), and a renewed interest in the often-derided world of frumpy English sportswear. From Wordnik.com. [My Tour of London: Classic Drag, Chien , C-s] Reference
But only because every bloody call I had seemed to be some toffee-nosed musician claiming to have been promised comps for tonight's concert - which has been sold out for weeks and for which there are no comps. From Wordnik.com. [You came along, and you cut me loose] Reference
Class warrior Lord Mandelson upsets his 'toffee-nosed' pals. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
In the Commonwealth, snobs are "toffee-nosed" and "talk with a plum in one's mouth". From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
HerrBlucher (Hey DU: Shut your festering gobs, you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts!). From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Yes Stephen Fry, I'll settle for 'pleb' … Shame you're not yourself, you toffee-nosed Establishment stooge. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Fawkes' blog] Reference
He helped popularise the great working-class riposte to the toffee-nosed union code but many decried him as a northern caricature. From Wordnik.com. [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference
He is a failed actor who is everywhere patronised as a colonial, especially by the toffee-nosed English theatrical types for whom he still hopefully auditions. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
"He is a failed actor who is everywhere patronised as a colonial, especially by the toffee-nosed English theatrical types for whom he still hopefully auditions.". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
I'm afraid he makes the list for me because he just reminds me of every over-privileged toffee-nosed wannabee thesp who thinks a bad haircut makes them look bohemian. From Wordnik.com. [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference
Although I am greatly greatly reassured by the party mouthpiece telling us Dave was only joking and the toffee-nosed sour-faced puss just hasn't got a sense of humour. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Piper] Reference
If you linger at the lights in a Shadow beside a secondhand Ford Mondeo, it is the Rolls driver who should do his Ronnie Corbett looking up to John Cleese, that toffee-nosed, rich. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Second, yachting off Cowes is, fairly or unfairly, seen as rather a toff's thing to do; Hayward is by no means toffee-nosed but in this context fairness has little place and the episode can only heighten the US view of BP's top staff as out-of-touch. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
If Jackie had wanted to find her, she wouldn’t have delegated her mission to this toffee-nosed yuppie. From Wordnik.com. [Deadline for Murder]
Copying from the best thesaurus I've come across, The Synonym Finder for pretentious, it offers the wonderful British slang "toffee-nosed". From Wordnik.com. ["It cannot be gainsaid..."] Reference
“I may have to let you stick your toffee-nosed face into my business, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it,” Nash responded, his heavy face set implacably. From Wordnik.com. [A Share in Death] Reference
Now, I haven’t read Agatha Christie in at least 30 years and I am, I admit, one of those toffee-nosed sorts who brags that he’s read ULYSSES and actually understood a small portion of it. From Wordnik.com. [Does Agatha Christie Deserve the Scorn She Gets From Critics? Coming Soon to One-Minute Book Reviews « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Don’t bother me with more information, don’t confuse me with the facts, the toffee-nosed bastards. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Thief] Reference
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