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fopperies

fopperies is the plural of foppery.

Meaning of foppery

Noun

foppery (countable and uncountable, plural fopperies)

  1. The dress or actions of a fop.
    • And it is by their fopperies and their frivolities that we know that their sinister philosophy is sincere; in their lights and garlands and ribbons we read their indwelling despair.1902, G.K. Chesterton, Twelve Types
  2. Stupidity.
    • This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, / when we are sick in fortune,–often the surfeit / of our own behavior,–we make guilty of our / disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as / if we were villains by necessity; fools by / heavenly compulsion […]c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Questions about fopperies

What is fopperies the plural of?
Fopperies is the plural of foppery.

Words near fopperies in the dictionary

  1. fopks
  2. fopling
  3. foplings
  4. fopoon
  5. fopoons
  6. fopperies
  7. foppery
  8. foppish
  9. foppishly
  10. foppishness
  11. foppishnesses

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