foppish

adjective

fop·​pish ˈfä-pish How to pronounce foppish (audio)
1
obsolete : foolish, silly
2
a
: characteristic of a fop
a foppish dressing gown
b
: behaving or dressing in the manner of a fop
foppishly adverb
foppishness noun

Examples of foppish in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Audiences and critics alike raved at his hilarious Poor Things performance as foppish lawyer Duncan Wedderburn, who steals Bella away for an international adventure. Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2024 Ruffalo, 56, has earned some of the biggest praise of his career as the foppish Duncan Wedderburn in Lanthimos’ surreally goofy take on Frankenstein. Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024 Advertisement The Savoyard in this play is Tiberius Spriggs, a foppish 1920s-era theater critic who invites five unsuspecting theater folks and fans to his London flat for a murder-mystery parlor game. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023 This foppish dandy is the Penguin in the pantheon of Washington, D.C., DC Comics villains. Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023 Hoult and Cage sell the toxic odd-couple dynamic well, but a sturdier story is required to fully support their performances, especially Cage’s operatic Dracula, who delights in terrorizing his foppish familiar. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023 Keith Jameson has the keen character tenor and bit of fussiness for the foppish Frenchman Triquet. Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022 Onstage, the band dressed in the sort of foppish outfits favored by several other white acts of the mid-1960s: knee-high socks, short ties, floppy collars. Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022 Her mother thinks otherwise, and wants to see her daughter marry a foppish wit that panders to her own intellectual pretensions. cleveland, 8 July 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1599, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of foppish was in 1599

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“Foppish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foppish. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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