foppish

[ fop-ish ]

adjective

1. resembling or befitting a fop; excessively refined and fastidious in taste and manner.

Other Words From

• foppish·ly adverb
• foppish·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of foppish¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; fop + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

As a boy, I must have intuited that what was foppish about Lynde, Reilly and Taylor coursed through me, too, even without the words to explain why.

From New York Times

“He cultivated a kind of foppish screwball persona to go along with his acerbic pen.”

From New York Times

Hoult and Cage sell the toxic odd-couple dynamic well, but a sturdier story is required to fully support their performances, especially Cage’s operatic Dracula, who delights in terrorizing his foppish familiar.

From Los Angeles Times

Onstage, the band dressed in the sort of foppish outfits favored by several other white acts of the mid-1960s: knee-high socks, short ties, floppy collars.

From New York Times

Albee caricatures the foppishly professorial Fam as sniveling, ingratiating and insincere.

From Los Angeles Times