foppish
pronunciation
How to pronounce foppish in British English:
UK [ˈfɔpɪʃ]
How to pronounce foppish in American English:
US [ˈfɑpɪʃ]
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- Adjective:
- affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
Word Origin
- foppish (adj.)
- c. 1600, from fop + -ish. Related: Foppishly; foppishness.
Example
- 1. Luxury isn 't a foppish dream !
- 2. He stood out because he wore a foppish hat , making him easy to find .
- 3. Shoin was no foppish admirer of western culture .
- 4. It all reminded me a little of bradford , but without any of the foppish glamour often associated with my yorkshire birthplace .
- 5. The marcel that proust sketches is a hollow man of the sort t. s. eliot limned in his poem of a similar title . The work starts with marcel 's earliest perceptions , including his insomnia as a child , and sprawls out across his foppish life and many effete characters and caricatures .