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[ fop-ish ] / ˈfɒp ɪʃ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR foppish ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveresembling or befitting a fop; excessively refined and fastidious in taste and manner. Origin of foppishFirst recorded in 1595–1605; fop + -ish1 OTHER WORDS FROM foppishfop·pish·ly, adverbfop·pish·ness, nounWords nearby foppishfooty, foo yong, foozle, fop, foppery, foppish, for, for a change, forage, forage cap, forage mite Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for foppishHay was the foppish “smiling emissary” whose conversational skills could make petitioners forget they came to see the president. The Battle over President Lincoln’s Legacy|Tom LeClair|February 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST Or that “macaronis” were foppish, sexually ambiguous males in the 1760s and 1770s? Queer Style A History of Fashion at FIT in New York|Peter Davis|September 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST Once he got his foppish foot in the door, he celebrated by unleashing the full majesty of his pent-up fashion exhibitionism. Benjamin Disraeli: Dead Cool|Simon Doonan|September 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST Such a mixture of whining cant and of foppish affectation I scarcely ever heard in my life. Rural Rides|William Cobbett
He was fair and foppish, very stout, and as heavy in mind as in body. Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II.|Catherine II, Empress of Russia He was only thirty feet behind Peter Niburg when that foppish gentleman reached the corner. Long Live the King|Mary Roberts Rinehart With a gesture so easy as almost to be slow motion, he tossed it into the face of the foppish officer. Frigid Fracas|Dallas McCord Reynolds Howat could see the dark, satirical face shadowed by the elaborate wig, the rigid figure in precise, foppish dress. The Three Black Pennys|Joseph Hergesheimer
Words related to foppishfashionable, natty, vain, dandified |