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Webster 1913 Edition

Foppery

Fop′per-y

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Fopperies
(#)
.
[From
Fop
.]
1.
The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.
2.
Folly; foolery.
Let not the sound of shallow
foppery
enter
My sober house.
Shakespeare
–
Fop′pish-ly
,
adv.
–
Fop′pish-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Foppery

FOP'PERY

,
Noun.
1.
Affectation of show or importance; showy folly; as the foppery of dress or of manners.
2.
Folly; impertinence.
Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter my sober house.
3.
Foolery; vain or idle practice; idle affectation.

Definition 2024

foppery

foppery

English

Noun

foppery ‎(plural fopperies)

  1. The dress or actions of a fop
    • 1902, G.K. Chesterton, Twelve Types:
      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.
  2. Stupidity
    • 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:
      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.
    • 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems:
      Still, still the secret presses; The nearing clouds draw down; The crimson morning flames into The fopperies of the town.

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