What (who) is FOP - definition
Fop
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Fop became a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb,The Regency era dandy, Lord William Pitt Lennox, even described someone's public manner as "too coxcombical": Venetia Murray (1998) A Social History of the Regency 1788–1830.
Fop
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·noun One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
fop
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¦ noun a man who is excessively concerned with his clothes and appearance.
Derivatives
foppery noun
foppish adjective
foppishly adverb
foppishness noun
Origin
ME (in the sense 'fool'): perh. related to fob2.
Pronunciation examples for FOP
1. I'd love to play a fop, some sort of mincing fop.
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Examples of use of FOP
1. "I didn‘t even know the Ohio FOP had a grant," she said yesterday.
2. "Laurence is not a fop, but he is a dandy," she says.
3. Isn‘t "fop" just the kind of word that would be bandied about on Capitol Hill?
4. Sir Christopher has been accused of being a Red Socked Fop.
5. Agents said he hid cameras at a youth camp run by the FOP.