Definition of fop

"fop" in the noun sense

1. dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse

a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance

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Quotations for fop

Foppery is the egotism of clothes. [ Victor Hugo ]

A fop sometimes gives important advice. [ Boileau ]

A six-foot suckling, mincing in its gait.
Affected, peevish, prim and delicate;
Fearful it seemed, tho' of athletic make,
Lest brutal breezes should so roughly shake
Its tender form, and savage motion spread
O'er its pale cheeks, the horrid manly red. [ Churchill ]

So gentle, yet so brisk, so wondrous sweet.
So fit to prattle at a lady's feet. [ Churchill ]

In form so delicate, so soft his skin.
So fair in feature, and so smooth his chin.
Quite to unman him nothing wants but this;
Put him in coats, and he's a very miss. [ Horace ]

Nature made every fop to plague his brother,
Just as one beauty mortifies another. [ Pope ]

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the affectation of the fine gentleman. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Ambiguous things that ape goats in their visage, women in their shape. [ Byron ]

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe. [ Proverb ]

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within. [ Richardson ]

Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making. [ Addison ]

Their methods various, but alike their aim; the sloven and the fopling are the same. [ Young ]

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird. [ Balzac ]

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb. [ Johnson ]

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes. [ Carlyle ]

A fop who admires his person in a glass soon enters into a resolution of making his fortune by it, not questioning that every woman who falls in his way will do him as much justice as himself. [ Thomas Hughes ]

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man - a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object - the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress. [ Carlyle ]

A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbors sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing. [ Martial ]

fop in Scrabble®

The word fop is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters fop:

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The 23 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In fop

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fop in Words With Friends™

The word fop is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters fop:

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The 24 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In fop

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Words within the letters of fop

2 letter words in fop (1 word)

3 letter words in fop (1 word)

fop + 1 blank (3 words)

fop + 2 blanks (5 words)

Words containing the sequence fop

Words that start with fop (6 words)

Words with fop in them (2 words)

Words that end with fop (1 word)

Word Growth involving fop

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Longer words containing fop

foppish foppishly

foppish foppishness

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