toff UK /tɒf/US /tɔf/ noun2 •(UK, disapproving) A person of the upper class or with pretensions to it, who usually communicates an air of superiority.Now Freddy is young, practically twenty years younger than Higgins: he is a gentleman (or, as Eliza would qualify him, a toff), and speaks like one; […] — 1912 •(no longer used) An elegantly dressed person.Last week down our alley came a toff, / Nice old geyser with a nasty cough, / Sees my missus, takes his topper off, / Quite in a gentlemanly way — 1899 formstoffs