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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
toffee-nosed
adjective
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▪ I thought he was a very toffee-nosed man, a good draughtsman in a commercial sort of way, very accurate of course.
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toffee-nosed

a. (cx mostly UK English) snobbish, condescending or aloof

WordNet
toffee-nosed

adj. snobbish; pretentiously superior

Usage examples of "toffee-nosed".

Overpaid toffee-nosed brussels sprouts, charge the earth and then expect you to do all the work.

It’s hard enough for the poor little bitch to have to deal with this train-load of toffee-nosed swells without her having to deal with me as well.

Lee went, and demonstrated that Proctor’s might have been a toffee-nosed school for swells, but its pupils were adept at defending themselves with their fists.

And yet I don’t want her working for the toffee-nosed snobs in Cork Street or – now I come to think about it – anybody anywhere else.

I wasn't enjoying seeing Ross crawl but he'd given me so many toffee-nosed dressing downs that I didn't feel inclined to soften the way for his application.