Fopling

His project, as he went on to expound, was to withdraw from the round of idle pleasures such as form the chief business of sir Fopling

Ulysses 2003

Fine gentlemen and ladies in the boxes that lined the "apron" applauded the witticisms of Sir Courtly Nice or Sir Fopling Flutter, as if they themselves were partakers in the conversation.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

One of those was Sir George Hewitt, on whom Etheridge, the comic writer, sketched his Sir Fopling Flutter.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

Fopling Popinjay and sir Milksop Quidnunc in town and to devote himself to the noblest task for which our bodily organism has been framed.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

The Fopling feeling towards the press predominated at the club, and although Richard was never openly snubbed -- his shoulders were too wide for that -- besides, some sigh of those hand-grips with Storri had gone about -- the feeling was manifest.

The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

And yet, the dough-like Fopling, at that moment in the library with

The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

As for the Character of Dorimant, it is more of a Coxcomb than that of Fopling.

Spectator, May 15, 1711 1711

Fopling, he is 'a fool so nicely writ, The ladies might mistake him for a wit. '

The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] William Congreve 1699

As for the Character of _Dorimant_, it is more of a Coxcomb than that of _Fopling_.

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

Again, to mark the nice distinction between two persons actuated by the same vice or folly is another; and, as this last talent is found in very few writers, so is the true discernment of it found in as few readers; though, I believe, the observation of this forms a very principal pleasure in those who are capable of the discovery; every person, for instance, can distinguish between Sir Epicure Mammon and Sir Fopling Flutter; but to note the difference between Sir Fopling Flutter and Sir Courtly Nice requires a more exquisite judgment: for want of which, vulgar spectators of plays very often do great injustice in the theatre; where I have sometimes known a poet in danger of being convicted as a thief, upon much worse evidence than the resemblance of hands hath been held to be in the law.

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730