2
a
: characteristic of a fop
a foppish dressing gown
b
: behaving or dressing in the manner of a fop
foppishly
adverb
foppishness
noun
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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.
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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
The coat plus the beard lent a bear-like aspect to his style, which was equally foppish and preppy.
—Vogue, 30 Oct. 2021
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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
The coat plus the beard lent a bear-like aspect to his style, which was equally foppish and preppy.
—Vogue, 30 Oct. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1599, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Foppish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foppish. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.
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