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foppery

foppery noun: the dress or actions of a fop.

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...
    • The energies of his mind led him to despise the fopperies of idolatry; and he found the Christians, in the most unfavourable situation, torn into innumerable parties, by the sectaries of Athanasius, Arius, Eutyches, Nestorius.1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets

Forms of foppery

pluralfopperies

Origin of foppery

From fop + -ery.

Questions about foppery

What does foppery mean?
Foppery means the dress or actions of a fop.
What part of speech is foppery?
Foppery is a noun.
What is the plural of foppery?
The plural of foppery is fopperies.

Words near foppery in the dictionary

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

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