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toffee-nosedadjective chiefly Britishbeing or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferiorhaving come from the middle class, he suffered at the hands of the toffee-nosed twits at Eton aristocratic, elitist, high-hat, persnickety, potty, ritzy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty aloof, arrogant, bumptious, haughty, high-and-mighty, highfalutin(also hifalutin), high-handed, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imperious, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, supercilious, superior, toplofty(also toploftical), uppitybiggety(or biggity, Southern & Midland), bigheaded, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), prideful, self-conceited, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swelled-headed, swellheaded democratic, egalitarianegoless, humble, modest, unpretentiousantielitist ca. 1925 |