A fop. rare. Now English regional (Northumberland).

A fastidious or effeminate man; a fop, a dandy. Obsolete.

A person who is excessively or affectedly precise or fastidious about dress or personal appearance; a dandy. Now rare.

colloquial (frequently derogatory). A foolish, conceited, or impertinent young man; (also) a young person, esp. one who is inexperienced or naive.

? a young fop.

A pert shallow-brained fellow; a puppy, a whippersnapper; a conceited fop or dandy. Now archaic.

A vain, conceited, or pretentious man; a man of ostentatiously affected mannerisms or appearance; a fop. In later use usually in form coxcomb.

derogatory. A prostitute, a courtesan. Also: a foppish man (cf. musk-cod, n. 2). Obsolete.

A term of abuse for: a showily vain or fashionable person; a coxcomb, a dandy.

A beautiful or handsome young man. Cf. Venus, n.1 4.

A beautiful or handsome young man; (also) a fop, a dandy. Cf. Adonis, n. 1.

One who wears a foretop; hence, a fop.

A heavily perfumed gentleman; a fop. Often as a derogatory form of address.

a fashionable or stylish person, a fop, a dandy.

A young man of an elegant or foppish character; one who affects smartness or display in dress and manners. Chiefly in more or less depreciatory use.

a fop or dandy.

A brilliant or ‘showy’ person; usually in contemptuous sense, one vain of his accomplishments or appearance, a coxcomb, fop. Obsolete.

a constant frequenter of the barber's shop, a fop.

As a term of reproach or contempt: a foolish, worthless, curmudgeonly, or otherwise contemptible person.

A little dapper fellow.

One given to fine or showy dress; a fop. Obs.

a coxcomb.

A trim, spruce fellow; a dandy, a coxcomb. Obsolete.

A vain or conceited man, esp. one whose style of dress is ostentatiously elegant or fashionable; a fop, a dandy. Also sometimes without…

An affected showy person, a fop; in later use applied to women. (A term of contempt.) Obsolete.

A person who wears or likes to wear satin.

colloquial (usually depreciative). A man who pays excessive attention to his appearance, a fop; an effeminate man (frequently with suggestion of…

One who is foolishly attentive to and vain of his appearance, dress, or manners; a dandy, an exquisite.

slang. A dandy, a fop. Now historical.

A petty fop.

A vain or foolish man; = coxcomb, n. 4a 4b. Obsolete. rare.

A handsome fellow; an exquisite, a fop.

An empty fop, a dandy. Obsolete.

slang. A man of showy demeanour or appearance.

A coxcomb. Obsolete. rare.

slang. (See quot. 1699) Obsolete. rare.

A man who gives particular, or excessive, attention to dress, mien, and social etiquette; an exquisite, a fop, a dandy.

(a) a dandy, a fop; (b) a minor, secondary, or insignificant master. cf. petit maître, n.

Used ironically of a man. Obsolete.

a bold, dashing, or adventurous young man.

as n. A dapper fellow. Obsolete.

derogatory. An effeminate man; a dandy, a fop. Also figurative. Now chiefly archaic.

A gay, dashing fellow; a dandy, fop, ‘fast’ man. Used also as a form of familiar address.

One who wears a toupee; a person of fashion; a beau, a spark, a buck. Obsolete.

transferred. = toupee, n. b. Obsolete.

attributive, as toupet-coxcomb, toupet-man, toupet-wig.

A dandy or fop; a finical fellow. Obsolete.

A man who scents himself with perfume or who wears a sprig of jasmine in his buttonhole (?); a dandy, a fop. See jemmy, n. 1b.

A dandy or fop; spec. (in the second half of the 18th cent.) a member of a set of young men who had travelled in Europe and extravagantly…

In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: a man who dresses gaily, a dandy; an ostentatious young man; (originally) one from a lower social class (obs…

= macaroni, n. 2; (perhaps) esp. a person who behaves mischievously like a monkey.

One who studies above everything to dress elegantly and fashionably; a beau, fop, ‘exquisite’.

A fashionable and elegant person, esp. a man; a fop or dandy.

Esp. in Paris in the 18th and 19th centuries: a dandy, a fop. Hence depreciatively: a member of a Moderate party (composed chiefly of young men…

A contemporary name for the French fop or dandy of the period of the Directory.

a beautiful man, esp. one who is effeminate; a fop, a dandy.

A man of fashion; a dandy. Obsolete.

A natty person. Obsolete. rare.

In specific uses. A member of a group of dandies of the early 19th cent., noted for their rowdy behaviour and sporting prowess. Now historical.

A person (usually a man) who is over-nice in dress, etc.; a coxcomb, dandy, fop.

(with pun on heavy swell in sense A. 8) a man of showy or impressive appearance; one dressed in the height of fashion.

A dandy. Obsolete. rare.

transferred and figurative. Predicatively, with epithet, of a person or a horse. Esp. in bit of stuff: now chiefly in slang use, with or without…

= incroyable, n.

A presumptuous, conceited dandy; a fop.

colloquial. A paltry or contemptible person; a whippersnapper; a fop. Also spec. a child or young person. Originally U.S.

a diminutive or petty dandy.

One not to be mentioned or named; an anonymous journalist, etc.; an ‘unutterable’ swell.

In various jocular or contemptuous applications with allusions to the coin. (See quot.)

a foolish, typically aristocratic or upper-class, fop or dandy, reminiscent of Lord Dundreary (see sense 1).

A fashionable young man of the late Victorian or Edwardian era, esp. one fond of the company of women; a dandy. Now historical.

A man who shows an ostentatious regard for fashion and style in regard to dress or appearance; a dandy, a fop. Now rare.

A sweetheart; a person who is the object of an infatuation or flirtation. Also: a dandy, a beau. Now rare.

A female dude (in various senses of dude, n.). Also (occasionally): the female companion of a dude.

= dandy, n.1

= heavy swell n.

A dandy.

British slang. A fashionable or showy young man. Cf. knut, n., nutty, adj. 4. Obsolete.

A person who is ‘smooth’ (sense 7); one who is suave or stylish in conduct or appearance: usually a man. Occasionally with unfavourable sense: a…

A dandy; a snob; a fastidious or pretentious person. Frequently as a form of address.

A fashionable man, esp. one who lives idly or has many sexual partners; a playboy.

a dandy; a showy but ineffective worker or sportsman.