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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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Nearby a half-length painting of Saint Sebastian reimagines its subject as an almost foppish youth with auburn hair and a single arrow piercing his smooth torso. Roberta Smith, New York Times, 24 June 2021 Eventually, foppish men hawking ideas rather than wares would lay the same claim to the American individualist spirit: the adman as noble as the oilman, the programmer no different from the prospector. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020 The monocle’s first two lives, as foppish accessory and evildoer’s adornment, have persisted into the present. Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019 The gesture seems to carry both a foppish sophistication and a Prussian coldness. Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019 For instance, a manly man of 18th-century France would be considered fairly foppish today. Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Aug. 2019 Watching a realistic wildebeest stampede, or Uncle Scar (Chiwetel Ejiofordoes the voice, less insidiously foppish than Jeremy Irons) crush the hopes and dreams of young Simba in lifelike scene after scene — these aren’t upgrades. Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2019 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1599, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of foppish was in 1599

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