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toffee-nosed

/taw-fee-nohzd, tof-ee-/US // ˈtɔ fiˌnoʊzd, ˈtɒf i- //

太妃糖鼻,太妃糖鼻的,太妃糖鼻头,太妃糖鼻子

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    British Slang.

    • : stuck-up; conceited; pretentious: a toffee-nosed butler; a toffee-nosed shop.

Examples

  • We sing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Jingle Bells”.

  • Meanwhile younger, lighter colors evoke citrus and tree fruits, candy sugars and vanilla toffee.

  • The long-nosed, self-described “little New York lover of photography” has embraced the impact his pictures can make.

  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Lost in Translation are Twee.

  • So rich and delicious, so dark and layered with coffee and hazelnuts, toffee, orange peel, cigar box.

  • The memory of the hawk-nosed, steel-eyed officer who rode from Kurnaul to Meerut in twenty-four hours smote him like a whip.

  • A low slung maroon roadster came down the street and nosed into the mouth of the tarvia drive at Joseph's gate.

  • Webber pulled out a snub-nosed instrument that looked enough like a gun to be very convincing.

  • Kieran roared again, and Webber pulled the snub-nosed thing out of his pocket.

  • One huge landing ship was nosed right up to the shore, and from it rolled tons of heavy equipment.