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One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.

A stupid or insignaficant fellow; a fool; a simpleton. [R.] Hudibras.

A petty fop. Landor.

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

Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

ies of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.

In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.

The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery.

A fop. [Obs.]

A kind of cloak or surtout. [Obs.] Johnson. Let the looped bavaroy the fop embrace. Gay.

Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine. "A beauish young spark." Byrom.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray.

Dandified; foppish.

A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull. [Obs.] Go; you're a brainless cox, a toy, a fop. Beau. & Fl.

d, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop. Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee. Goldsmith. Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope.

Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited. -- Cox*comb"ic*al*ly, adv. Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails. W. Irving.

The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.

me; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness. Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves. Addison.

One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.

The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness. Byron.