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Definition of foppish in English: foppishadjective ˈfɒpɪʃˈfɑpɪʃ (of a man) concerned with his clothes and appearance in an affected and excessive way. Example sentencesExamples - They weren't the pot-bellied kind, more the underwear-model kind; tanned, perspiring, incongruously foppish hair, stubbled, one of them hanging off the end of a smoke, in dark blue cargo pants, boots, tool belts and nothing else.
- Long before then, Heinrich had noticed his younger sibling's foppish ways, recommending the traditional ‘sleep cure’, and even offering the address of a bordello where the therapy could be obtained at modest cost.
- He is foppish and vain (he writes a very flattering line in autobiographies) - but also dashed fanciable.
- They are wonderfully ebullient and foppish monuments dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with domes swelling out of all proportion to the base, each like a watermelon attempting to balance on a fig.
- I don't think he's going to be as eccentric and as foppish as some of his incarnations.
Synonyms dandyish, dandified, dapper, dressy, spruce affected, dainty, preening, vain effeminate, effete, girly, niminy-piminy, mincing, posturing informal la-di-da, natty, sissy, camp, campy, queeny informal, derogatory poncey, pansyish
Derivatives adverb The male koel, foppishly clad in silky black, flutters enticingly close to a crow's nest, causing anxiety and outrage among the crows. Example sentencesExamples - With both hands foppishly buried in his jacket pockets, he contemplated us with a haughty look, cast a critical eye over the condition of the old courthouse and then walked with elegant disdain to his seat right in front of us.
- Whipping around foppishly like an imp, he handily takes on jester roles with equal success.
- And there's a song about ambling foppishly through the Tiergarten to the sound of a harp.
- A short, rather foppishly dressed fellow emerged from the group of sailors on board the Soaring Swan, the merchant vessel.
nounˈfɒpɪʃnəsˈfɑpɪʃnəs As we watched, we were mainly struck by the self-involved foppishness of all the central characters. Example sentencesExamples - Despite what you may have heard, dandyism is the antithesis of foppishness.
- Its foppishness, the daily lazy routine of not beginning the day till late into the afternoon; the emphasis placed on poets and poetry and other cultural activities make for interesting reading.
- By 1720 Restoration foppishness had given place to the dignity of the first Georgian period.
- His modern-day company is a shaft of light into a world he once straddled with an unprecedented combination of foppishness and fear tactics.
Definition of foppish in US English: foppishadjectiveˈfɑpɪʃˈfäpiSH (of a man) concerned with his clothes and appearance in an affected and excessive way. Example sentencesExamples - They weren't the pot-bellied kind, more the underwear-model kind; tanned, perspiring, incongruously foppish hair, stubbled, one of them hanging off the end of a smoke, in dark blue cargo pants, boots, tool belts and nothing else.
- They are wonderfully ebullient and foppish monuments dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with domes swelling out of all proportion to the base, each like a watermelon attempting to balance on a fig.
- I don't think he's going to be as eccentric and as foppish as some of his incarnations.
- He is foppish and vain (he writes a very flattering line in autobiographies) - but also dashed fanciable.
- Long before then, Heinrich had noticed his younger sibling's foppish ways, recommending the traditional ‘sleep cure’, and even offering the address of a bordello where the therapy could be obtained at modest cost.
Synonyms dandyish, dandified, dapper, dressy, spruce
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