0 People who are toffee-nosed consider themselves to be better than other people, especially than people of a lower social class:
It was a bit of a laugh, really, some of those toffee-nosed people having to queue.
There is nothing to be "toffee-nosed" about: it is common sense so far as keeping an allotment is concerned.
Birks, in her own style, tried to make the magazine more much further mainstream, not just for the toffee-nosed or the literary.
Other origins include the abbreviation of toffee-nosed.
