WORD WIZARDRY

GUESS THE DEFINITION: Orrery (c. 1710) Relating to A) A pigsty. B) A votive offering. C) A device showing how the planets moved around the Sun. Answer below.

PHRASE EXPLAINED

Toffee-nosed: Meaning pretentiously superior. From World War I, the origin is not ‘toffee’ but ‘toff’, 18th-century slang for someone well-dressed to the point of being flashy.