foppish
/ˈfɒpɪʃ
/adjective
(Of a man) concerned with his clothes and appearance in an affected and excessive way: he is foppish and vain a foppish dandy...
- He is foppish and vain (he writes a very flattering line in autobiographies) - but also dashed fanciable.
- They weren't the pot-bellied kind, more the underwear-model kind; tanned, perspiring, incongruously foppish hair, stubbled, one of them hanging off the end of a smoke, in dark blue cargo pants, boots, tool belts and nothing else.
- Long before then, Heinrich had noticed his younger sibling's foppish ways, recommending the traditional ‘sleep cure’, and even offering the address of a bordello where the therapy could be obtained at modest cost.
Synonyms
dandyish, dandified, dapper, dressy, spruce;
affected, dainty, preening, vain;
effeminate, effete, girly, niminy-piminy, mincing, posturing
informal la-di-da, natty, sissy, camp, campy, queeny
informal, derogatory poncey, pansyish
Derivatives
foppishly
- The male koel, foppishly clad in silky black, flutters enticingly close to a crow's nest, causing anxiety and outrage among the crows.
- With both hands foppishly buried in his jacket pockets, he contemplated us with a haughty look, cast a critical eye over the condition of the old courthouse and then walked with elegant disdain to his seat right in front of us.
- A short, rather foppishly dressed fellow emerged from the group of sailors on board the Soaring Swan, the merchant vessel.
foppishness
/ noun ...- His modern-day company is a shaft of light into a world he once straddled with an unprecedented combination of foppishness and fear tactics.
- Despite what you may have heard, dandyism is the antithesis of foppishness.
- Its foppishness, the daily lazy routine of not beginning the day till late into the afternoon; the emphasis placed on poets and poetry and other cultural activities make for interesting reading.