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Word Meanings - FOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • DANDY
    dandiner to waddle, to play the fool; prob. allied to E. dandle. 1. One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb. A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set. A small sail carried at or near the
  • PEDANTY
    An assembly or clique of pedants. Milton.
  • DANDYLING
    A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
  • PUPPYISM
    Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence. A. Chalmers.
  • PUPPYISH
    Like a puppy.
  • DANDYISE; DANDYIZE
    To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.
  • PUPPYHOOD
    The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.
  • COXCOMB
    A name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. Same as Cockscomb. (more info) A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.
  • COXCOMBICAL
    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.
  • PEDANTICLY
    Pedantically.
  • PUPPY
    The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp. 2. A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person. I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm. Addison.
  • PEDANTIC; PEDANTICAL
    Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.
  • PEDANTRY
    The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.
  • PEDANTISM
    The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry.
  • PEDANT
    1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak. 2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant,
  • DANDY-COCK; DANDY-HEN
    A bantam fowl.
  • PEDANTIZE
    To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.
  • COXCOMBLY
    like a coxcomb. "You coxcombly ass, you!" Beau & Fl.
  • PEDANTOCRACY
    The sway of pedants. J. S. Mill.
  • COXCOMBRY
    The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.
  • BUMBLEPUPPY
    The old game of nineholes. 2. Whist played in an unscientific way.
  • HANDY-DANDY
    A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
  • JACK-A-DANDY
    A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.

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