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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Foolish quality or action.
  2. n. The dress or manner of a fop.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Foolishness; foolery; foolish vanity; vain show.
  2. n. A foolish or mocking exhibition.
  3. n. Vain ornaments; gewgaws.
  4. n. Affectation of precision in trifles, or fastidious observance of the prevailing fashion; dandyism: as, the foppery of dress or of manners.
  5. Foppish; foolish.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The dress or actions of a fop
  2. n. Stupidity

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.
  2. n. Folly; foolery.

Examples

  • “I can tell you without a doubt … I’d allow myself to be staked out on top of a fire ant pile for three days before I’d have appeared at this sycophantic exercise in foppery, irrelevance and pathetic grandstanding!”

    Thank God Joe Biden was at the beer summit. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState

  • “The descriptions are "high-falutin" beyond all endurance, and there is particularly noticeable a kind of stylistic foppery, which is always hovering between sublimity and a giggle.”

    Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

  • “From a kind of foppery peculiar to himself, he wears the thick cloak of a common soldier.”

    A Hero of Our Time

  • “Edmund's speech, where the word "foppery" is a special clue:”

    Montaigne and Shakspere

  • “He was handsome, and he knew that he was handsome; but he affected to despise the beauty of his proud dark face, as he affected to despise all the brightest and most beautiful things upon earth: and yet there was a vagabondish kind of foppery in his costume that contrasted sharply with the gentlemanly dandyism of the shabby gamester sitting at the table.”

    Birds of Prey

  • “This "foppery" of Shakespeare's day had, then, its really delightful side, a quality in no sense "affected," by which it satisfies a real instinct in our minds -- the fancy so many of us have for an exquisite and curious skill in the use of words.”

    Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

  • “a kind of foppery peculiar to himself, he wears the thick cloak of a common soldier.”

    A Hero of Our Time

  • “foppery' was a sufficient argument for detesting it.”

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

  • ““I thought 'foppery' was a consequence of refinement”

    Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals

  • “So, clad in a pair of homemade "shants," flip-flops, and my only concession to foppery a canvas bag from Rivendell, I grabbed the Ticino and set out looking like the miserable aftermath of a collision between "cycle chic" and Mugatu's "Derelicte.”

    BSNYC Product Review: Electra Ticino 8D

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. coxcombry
  1. folly
  1. foolery

same context (25)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. wilfulness
  2. vainglory
  3. willfulness
  4. wastefulness
  5. coxcombry
  1. insincerity
  2. frippery
  3. conventionalism
  4. wantonness
  5. falsity
  1. ostentation
  2. boastfulness
  3. inanity
  4. impertinence
  5. crudity
  1. bidness
  2. worldliness
  3. simpleness
  4. daintiness
  5. self-indulgence
  1. shearer
  2. childishness
  3. coxcomb
  4. fatuity
  5. necktie

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. apishness
  1. buckism
  1. disgust
  1. foppery

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  • wordlust This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, -- often the surfeit of our own behaviour, -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.

    Shakespeare King Lear, 1. 2 Sep 22, 2009

  • yarb This gentleman, said I to myself, must be an original. I was not mistaken; his singularities were striking. On his entrance, he ran with open arms and embraced the company, male and female, one after another. His grimaces were more extravagant than any I had yet seen in this region of foppery.

    - Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 3 ch. 11 Sep 18, 2008

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