toffee-nosed
太妃糖鼻,太妃糖鼻的,太妃糖鼻头,太妃糖鼻子
Definitions
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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.