fop

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Fop, n. a vain man, a coxcomb

foppery, n. manners or dress of a fop

Foppish, a. vain, gaudy, fool

Foppishly, ad. in a foppish manner

Foppishness, n. foppish dress

Quoted from: Noah Webster: A Dictionary for Primary Schools. New York, 1834.

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Fop, (fop) n.s. A simpleton; a coxcomb; a man of small understanding and much ostentation; a pretender; a man fond of show, dress, and flutter

Fopling, n. A petty fop; an under-rate coxcomb

Foppery, n.a. Folly; impertinence; affectation of show or importance; showy folly

Foppish, a. Vain in show; foolishly ostentatious

Foppishly, ad. Vainly; ostentatiously

Foppishness, n.s. Vanity; showy or ostentatious vanity

Quoted from: Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson: A Dictionary of the English Language. London: Pickering, 1828.

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Fop, a person of weak understanding and great pretence to knowledge and wisdom, or rather a person affecting delicacy too much both in dress and behaviour

Quoted from: Daniel Fenning: The Royal English dictionary. 1775.

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Fop, a coxcomb, macaroni, beau, fashionist, jackanapes, popinjay, princock, princox, a simpleton, a man of small understanding and much ostentation, a pretender, a man fond of show, dress, and flutter, an impertinent

Quoted from: William Perry: The Synonymous, Etymological, and Pronouncing English Dictionary. London, 1805.

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FOP,

Is one who has not the honour to be a coxcomb; there is not stuff enough in him to reach that character. He is extremely satisfied with his person; fancies every woman that sees him cannot help dying for him: and that he may give the poor creatures as much excuse for their fatal weakness for him as possible, (which by the bye is very good-natured) adds to his person one reason more for their liking it, in dressing irresistibly taudry, and keeps them withal in countenance, by his own example, in loving himself to distraction. He passes most of his time in ogling himself in a glass; primming his figure, and caressing his curls and toupee. He verifies that general maxim, that a thing that can do no harm, will never do much good: for, as no woman can fall to him, that is not as perfectly worthless as himself, of which the damage is not great, so may you safely defy him to make any woman happy, who deserves to be happy. Nor indeed is it in his power to marry, being, properly speaking, so married to himself, that it looks to him like cuckolding himself, to afford any love to any other but his own sweet person.

Quoted from: Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths: The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal. Vol. IX. London: 1754.

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