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ˈfɒp ə rifop·pe·ry

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  1. fopperynoun

    The dress or actions of a fop

  2. fopperynoun

    Stupidity

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Fopperynoun

    Etymology: from fop.

    Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter
    My sober house. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

    I was three or four times in the thought they were not fairies; and yet the guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my powers, drove the grossness of the foppery into a received belief, in despight of the teeth of all rhime and reason, that they were fairies. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

    This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars, as if we were villains on necessity. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    They thought the people were better let alone in their fopperies, than to be suffered to break loose from that subjection which your superstition kept them in. Edward Stillingfleet.

    But though we fetch from Italy and France
    Our fopperies of tune, and mode of dance,
    Our sturdy Britons scorn to borrow sense. George Granville.

    I wish I could say quaint fopperies were wholly absent from graver subjects. Jonathan Swift, to the Lord High Treasurer.

Wikipedia

  1. foppery

    Fop became a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, fribble, popinjay (meaning 'parrot'), dandy, fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni was another term of the 18th century more specifically concerned with fashion. The pejorative term today carries the connotation of a person, usually male, who is overly concerned with trivial matters (especially matters of fashion) and who affects elite social standing. The term also appears in reference to deliberately camp styles based on eighteenth-century looks.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fopperynoun

    the behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly

  2. Fopperynoun

    folly; foolery

  3. Etymology: [From Fop.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of foppery in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of foppery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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