re: #31 Walter L. Newton
According to “Beau Brumell: The Ultimate Dandy” by Ian Kelly, “toff” and “toffee-nosed” refer to the disgusting brown drips from a gent’s nose after taking snuff.
And here I was about to eat lunch.
The funniest thing about people like Breitbart and R.S. McCain is that they fancy themselves “gentlemen” in some atavistic sense of the word.