foplings

But what can they do, if their lot be cast only among foplings?

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

There are, indeed, vicn, whose minds, if I may be allowed th. e expression, seem to be cast into a female mould; whence the fops, foplings, and pretty fellows, who buzz about your sex at public places; ivomeii, v. hose minds seem to be cast in a masculine one; whence your

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

But this race gave place to another; the soldiers made way for the merchants, the merchants for the artists, the artists for the foplings, and her ruin was complete.

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

Learnt to dress as foplings dress, and to think as foplings think! '

The Golden Calf 1875

Have any of these English foplings and lordlings, with more peers in their pedigrees than pennies in their pockets, turned your head?

For Woman's Love Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

At first I did not care so much, but as I grew more at my ease, I felt ashamed of my dress, and the more so as the young foplings would put their glasses to their eyes, and look at me as if I were a monster.

The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago Frederick Marryat 1820

At first I did not care so much, but as I grew more at my ease, I felt ashamed of my dress, and the more so as the young foplings would put their glasses to their eyes, and look at me as if I were a monster.

The Privateersman Frederick Marryat 1820

Than whispering foplings, or than witlings loud --

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Than whispering foplings, or than witlings loud --

Don Juan George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

And when the worthy men know not where to find wives, must not the sex be left to the foplings, the coxcombs, the libertines of the age, whom they help to make such?

The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV 1750