fops in English

noun

1

a man who is concerned with his clothes and appearance in an affected and excessive way; a dandy.

The fops and dandies had no interest in war and concentrated instead on their seraglios.

synonyms: dandy, man about town, poseur, snappy dresser, trendoid, hipster, coxcomb, popinjay

noun

• dandy, man about town, poseur, snappy dresser, trendoid, hipster, coxcomb, popinjay
• clotheshorse, beau, sheik, swell, fashion plate, dandy, dude, gallant

Use "fops" in a sentence

1. It's a brother's duty to introduce his sister to some other type than fops.

2. There are the people, fops up there, but everybody is laughing, everybody is laughing except one guy.

3. Be-Alimonied female fops out .of their sealskin slippers, and put them to ply ing, a ; pair of greasy overalls

4. 1988 This was essentially the vehicle that had been perfected, through more than a century or two, for—and by—a continuing line of fops, Beaux, macaronis, dudes, bucks, blades, swells

5. "At this general assembly of Coxcombs, fops and the world's greatest dunces, Theobald, an unsuccessful writer, is crowned 'Chief of the Dunces'." Fame Ndongo's Pyrrhic Victory; Peterkins Manyong; The Post (Buea, Cameroon); Jan 16, 2007