单词 | foppery |
释义 | fopperyn. a. Foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, folly. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] unwisdomc825 unredeeOE egedec1175 unwitc1175 unwisdomnessa1200 dusileca1225 dusischipa1225 folly?c1225 kangschipe?c1225 unwitshipa1250 unwisenessa1340 cornardy1340 unwithead1340 lewdness1362 nicetyc1380 sotie1390 folitya1400 follinessa1400 foolheada1400 insipiencec1422 fondnessa1425 wanwita1425 cocardyc1430 foltry1440 jopperyc1440 folliheada1450 fonning?a1475 niceheada1475 foltheadc1475 folabilitya1529 daftness1552 foolageness1563 foppery1592 guckry1596 senselessness1606 coxcombry1608 goosery1642 ineptitude1656 fopicalness1660 fopperishness1683 insagacity1808 spoonery1824 spooniness1824 noodleism1830 addle-headedness1835 foolishment1852 insapiency1876 ineptness1877 goosiness1888 inepticality1923 sappiness1943 gormlessness1958 1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. D4 He..was fauoured of the foolish sect for his foppery. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon Pref. The Foppery of their Priests Religious Opinions and Practices. 1711 E. Ward Vulgus Britannicus (ed. 3) iv. 136 They're fix'd Enemies to Pop'ry, As well as to Fanatick Fop'ry. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > action, behaviour > instance of unwitc1175 foliota1250 follyc1300 unwisdom1303 foolishness?1506 fooling?1545 foppery1546 foolery1562 filly-folly1565 impertinency1588 impertinence1603 silliness1624 idiotism1647 noddary1647 fondness1653 ineptitude1656 sottise1673 insipidity1822 bêtise1827 foolishment1871 jackassery1873 funny business1882 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > instance of follyc1300 absurditya1525 mumpsimus1531 trim-tram1533 foppery1546 ridicle1570 fangle1583 delirium1599 monstruosity1601 adox1606 absurd1610 extravagancy1625 incongruitya1626 monstrosity1639 extravagant1644 extravagance1650 ridiculea1658 fadoodlea1670 ridiculous1674 irrationalitya1680 ridiculosity1773 whimsy-whamsy1807 absurdism1815 nonsensity1834 nonsensical1842 nonsensicalitya1850 fandango1856 fandangle1880 bollock1919 1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 7 With hys myters and mastryes, wyth his fannoms and fopperyes. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1903/1 He foresooke his former studying of the Scholo Doctours, and other such fopperies. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xxiii. 228/1 Holding it a foppery to write of those, of whose fauour or wrath the Inditers stood in hope or feare. 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia Notes 47 Thank God, the Foppery of Pilgrimages is out of Fashion in England. 1758 J. Jortin Life Erasmus I. 170/1 Colet was out of patience to see those silly fopperies [reliques]. 2. a. The behaviour or manner characteristic of a fop; silly affectation of elegance; coxcombry, dandyism; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy > style or condition of wantonnessc1405 beauship1696 foppery1697 beauetry1702 foppishness1741 buckism1753 macaronism1775 buckishness1803 dandiness1819 dandyism1819 petit maitreship1822 dandyhood1823 petit maitreism1824 dandification1827 exquisitism1833 beauism1844 dandydomc1850 tigerishness1869 dudedom1883 dudeism1883 dudery1883 dudeness1884 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. xxvi. 169 Souldiers shall not observe the punctilios of Spruceness and Foppery. 1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 135 Modern politeness..runs often into affectation and foppery. 1808 S. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 106 The abominable military foppery of our own people. 1822 C. Lamb Detached Thoughts on Bks. in Elia 2nd Ser. A Shakespeare, or a Milton (unless the first editions), it were mere foppery to trick out in gay apparel. 1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude vi. 113 Too intent upon the fopperies of religion. b. concrete in plural or collective singular. Foppish finery. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > fantastic or affected conceit1463 fangle1583 crotchet1611 foppery1711 whigmaleery1793 quipa1822 dandification1827 fandangle1835 fandango1856 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 45. ¶1 An Act..for Prohibiting the Importation of French Fopperies. a1763 W. Shenstone Progress of Taste i. in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 266 And, as my satire bursts amain, See, feather'd fopp'ry strew the plain. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge x. 289 His riding gear, though free from such fopperies as were then in vogue, was..well chosen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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