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Webster 1913 Edition

Fop

Fop

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Noun.
[OE.
foppe
,
fop
, fool; cf. E.
fob
to cheat, G.
foppen
to make a fool of one, jeer, D.
foppen
.]
One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fop

FOP

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Noun.
[The Latin voppa, a senseless fellow, is evidently from the same root, with the sense of emptiness or lightness.]
A vain man of weak understanding and much ostentation; one whose ambition is to gain admiration by showy dress and pertness; a gay trifling man; a coxcomb.

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fop

fop

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English

Noun

fop ‎(plural fops)

  1. A vain man; a dandy.

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Verb

fop

  1. first-person singular present indicative of foppen
  2. imperative of foppen

Etymology

From Middle English foppe, fobbe ‎(“fop, fool”). Akin to German foppen ‎(“to jeer”)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /fɒp/
  • Rhymes: -ɒp

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