toffee-nosed

1. 1.

   snobbish; pretentiously superior

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Questions about toffee-nosed

What does toffee-nosed mean?

toffee-nosed means "snobbish; pretentiously superior".

How many syllables are in toffee-nosed?

toffee-nosed has 3 syllables and divides as tof-fee-no-sed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is toffee-nosed a common word?

toffee-nosed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.