toff
英 [t?f]
美[tɑf]
- n. 有錢人；花花公子；愛打扮的人
- n. (Toff)人名；(羅)托夫
暢通詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?toffs;
中文詞源
toff 紈绔子弟，花花公子
可能改寫自 tuft,成簇，羽毛或絲線裝飾品，原為 18 世紀中期時牛津大學校園俚語，用來指 貴族家庭或老爸有較高社會地位的同學，因當時牛津或劍橋的貴族子女常在帽子上掛上金絲 穗飾物來彰顯地位。后進一步俚語化，用來指紈绔子弟或花花公子。
英文詞源
- toff
- toff: [19] Toff probably originated as an alteration of tuft [14], which was used from the 18th century as an Oxford University slang term for a ‘titled undergraduate’ (students who came from noble families wore a gold tassel or ‘tuft’ on their caps). Tuft itself was adapted from Old French tofe or toffe ‘tuft’, a word of Germanic origin.
=> tuft - toff (n.)
- lower-class London slang for "stylish dresser, man of the smart set," 1851, said by OED to be probably an alteration of tuft, formerly an Oxford University term for a nobleman or gentleman-commoner (1755), in reference to the gold ornamental tassel worn on the caps of undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge whose fathers were peers with votes in the House of Lords.
雙語例句
- 1. Some said he was a toff in disguise.
- 有些人說他是個喬裝的紳士.
來自辭典例句
- 2. He came out no end of a toff.
- 他打扮得怪漂亮地出來了.
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