Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man who is preoccupied with and often vain about his clothes and manners; a dandy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To mock; fool; cheat.
- n. A fool; a shallow pretender; an ostentations dunce.
- n. A man who is ostentatiously nice in manner and appearance; one who invites admiration by conspicuous dress and affectations; a coxcomb; a dandy.
- n. Synonyms Dandy, Exquisite, etc. See coxcomb.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
Etymologies
- Akin to German foppen ("to jeer") (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, fool; probably akin to Middle English fob, trickster, cheat; see fob2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“At eight-and-twenty, Caesar, who not thirty years later was to die master of Rome, was chiefly known as a fop and a spendthrift.”
“After unzipping the download, you will have a file name fop-0. 95 (the latest version as of November 4, 2008).”
“The style takes a while to get adjusted to since the novel starts on a very light note despite its grim underlying events, Portier being a very self-deprecating and wry narrator, while his two companions in the investigation, Chevalier Ilario and sorcerer Dante start as the overdone cliches of "fop" and "brilliant but moody outsider sorcerer".”
“Don Diego Viega, whose picture might just be beside the word 'fop' if California had a dictionary, can do nothing about it.”
“I didn't yet understand the word "fop," but I sure wanted to be one, even if I had to cut off one of my own hands to look this dashing.”
“I have been a fan of yours since u wrote desert warrior, I absolutly love ur writing. reading your books is like a double edged sword I cant wait to get your books but I dont like when I finished them and have to wait months fop the next book the only thing that keeps me sane is that I know the next book is going to be worth the wait.”
“A garrulous and conceited person; a coxcomb, dandy, fop”
“She is often embarrassed by what she has to do to pass herself off as a guy and when being a guy gets her into guy trouble --- a duel with the fop Sir Andrew Aguecheek --- she nearly faints from fright and the only thing protecting her is that Sir Andrew is more frightened than she is.”
“Sheen, so breezy and appealing as Tony Blair in "The Queen," here slips smoothly into the role of David Frost, the English talk-show host and infotainment personality who, as portrayed in "Frost/Nixon," is a bit of a fop and a bit of a poseur, but clawingly ambitious at his core.”
“And Carnac the Magnificent says, "A cop, a flop and a fop.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fop’.
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Bike Snob'isms
words I saw while reading the Bike Snob
helment, scranus, podium, sangue borse, hipster, dandydom, effete, douchebag, douchebags, Lobweh, Portland, brakeless track bike and 318 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Here I Dreamt I Was An Archetype
one-horse town, freckle-faced gir..., evil vizier, hardboiled detective, dark alleyway, jolly fat man, spandex-clad supe..., noble swordsman, grey-bearded mentor, redshirt, absent-minded pro..., funny animal and 78 more...
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Words with a P in them
opalescent, apposite, kelp, culprit, corporeal, copper, impinge, impose, impetus, impassible, oppress, maple and 40 more...
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Short
the, a, spunk, curt, do, pick, fop, sip, dip, map, nag, prig and 2 more...
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G...R...E
gross.
sybarite, restiveness, churl, nepotism, jingoism, pusillanimous, gaffe, incisive, enervate, bucolic, concomitant, abeyance and 158 more...
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wakcy's Words
apocalypse, interlude, drome, absolution, atrocity, ruse, pristine, mason, reparable, deteriorate, pyramid, hipster and 283 more...
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dandy's list
favourite words
cattywampus, wibble, fenagle, whisker, sneeze, wisteria, honeysuckle, clove, perihelion, glimmer, twilight, dusk and 264 more...
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~~Olde-Fashioned Insults~~
ragamuffin, muttonchops, tatterdemalion, nincompoop, whippersnapper, bootlicker, backscratcher, loggerhead, weisenheimer, hornswoggler, thimblerigger, quacksalver and 111 more...
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Quirkstyle
Fashion elegance, oddities, styles, and cool garments.
tatterdemalion, froufrou, gingham, argyle, corset, hoop skirt, pantaloons, bloomers, jaunty, seersucker, twill, ganguro and 126 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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kringlan's Words
fecund, riposte, nebbish, nonpareil, deign, eschew, imbroglio, spelunking, fop, foofaraw, tundra, talon and 128 more...
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lester
sargasso, monolithic, idioms, nascent, sonances, arrhythmic, pap, dilettantish, fuzztone, effete, morass, waxed and 92 more...
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wunderkammer's Words
smarmy, bubkes, elucidate, togs, aeolian, carp, kibosh, bosky, ramshackle, mange, harpy, effervesce and 163 more...
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Poets, like disputants, when reasons fail,
Have one sure refuge left—and that’s to rail.
Fop, coxcomb, fool, are thundered through the pit;
And this is all their equipage of wit.
- John Dryden, 'All for Love'. Sep 20, 2009