toffee-nosed in English
adjective
1
pretentiously superior; snobbish.
Others view him as the kind of arrogant, toffee-nosed , self-regarding, would-be aristocrat who gives gun-wielding, fly-casting Englishmen abroad in the Highlands a very well-deserved bad name.
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1. Toffee-nosed and useless.
2. I thought he was a very toffee-nosed man, a good draughtsman in a commercial sort of way, very accurate of course.