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Toff in yesterday's AFFLICTION ten letter puzzle
« on: September 10, 2020, 08:12:12 PM »
TOFF was a rare word. Is it too English? Certainly common to me - meaning a high-brow nob. 
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Re: Toff in yesterday's AFFLICTION ten letter puzzle
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2020, 02:08:41 PM »
Omen bet --- Flemington R5 h7 -- TOFFEE TONGUE

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Re: Toff in yesterday's AFFLICTION ten letter puzzle
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2020, 03:40:22 PM »
Les I think you would bet on two flys crawling up a wall!
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Re: Toff in yesterday's AFFLICTION ten letter puzzle
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2020, 06:14:09 PM »
Apparently not

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Re: Toff in yesterday's AFFLICTION ten letter puzzle
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2020, 10:44:36 PM »
TOFF was a rare word. Is it too English? Certainly common to me - meaning a high-brow nob.

Yes, it is too British. Toff is not used in the United States. I can't speak for Canada.
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Re: Toff in yesterday's AFFLICTION ten letter puzzle
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2020, 09:46:52 AM »
It would certainly be a word that would/should be recognised around the Commonwealth. I would have thought on the “well read” basis, it would qualify at least as a rare word in English.

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Re: Toff in yesterday's AFFLICTION ten letter puzzle
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2020, 11:24:50 AM »
I certainly know "toff" - maybe because I'm old enough to have read novels using it.  Maybe Leslie Charteris's The Saint books?