Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a fop; dandified.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of a fop; affecting or manifesting ostentatious nicety in dress and manner; dandyish.
- Synonyms See
finical .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Like a
fop , a man overly concerned with hisappearance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
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Examples
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The word foppish has appeared in 14 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Aug. 17 in the restaurant review "Now Appearing in Chicago, a Restaurant in Footlights," by Sam Sifton:
NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2011
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His whole dress and air was not what could properly be called foppish, it was rather what at that time was called "rakish."
Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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His whole dress and air was not what could properly be called foppish, it was rather what at that time was called "rakish."
Lucretia — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Fastidious, clever, slightly skeptical, accustomed to the best society (he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Marine for a year preceding his retreat from his profession and from Europe), he possessed a latent warmth of feeling and a capacity for sympathy which were concealed by a sort of haughty, arbitrary indifference of manner arising from his early training; and by a something an enemy might have called foppish, in his aspect -- like a distorted echo of past elegance.
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(he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Marine for a year preceding his retreat from his profession and from Europe), he possessed a latent warmth of feeling and a capacity for sympathy which were concealed by a sort of haughty, arbitrary indifference of manner arising from his early training; and by a something an enemy might have called foppish, in his aspect -- like a distorted echo of past elegance.
The End of the Tether Joseph Conrad 1890
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But now the august Wall Street Journal officially declares that collar-poppin is not "foppish" a bit!
Gawker: Valleywag 2009
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Similarly, Frederick Law Olmsted noted that many blacks in Richmond, Virginia, on a Sunday were “dressed with foppish extravagence, and many in the latest style of fashion.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Certainly NOT the foppish caricature that the GOP faithful paint.
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Rumors have been swirling for years about the dignified perpetual bachelor, but TMZ can now confirm that sources close to sources have seen the foppish Prez "bending over a page when he's done with his reading." more
Fortune's Stanley Bing: Exclusive Bulletins From the Archives of TMZ! <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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Rumors have been swirling for years about the dignified perpetual bachelor, but TMZ can now confirm that sources close to sources have seen the foppish Prez "bending over a page when he's done with his reading." more
Fortune's Stanley Bing: Exclusive Bulletins From the Archives of TMZ! <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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