Definitions for coxcomb

coxcomb cox·comb

Spelling: [koks-kohm]
IPA: /ˈkɒksˌkoʊm/

Coxcomb is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in coxcomb (bccmoox).

Definitions for coxcomb

noun

  1. a conceited, foolish dandy; pretentious fop.
  2. Archaic. head; pate.
  3. Obsolete. cockscomb (def 2).

Origin of coxcomb

First recorded in 1565-75; spelling variant of cockscomb

Examples for coxcomb

I was no coxcomb; I had had experiences, and I knew these signs.

He felt a desire to tell this coxcomb just what he thought of him.

Do you suppose I'd give that coxcomb the triumph of thinking I want to make up to him?

Now let him, he has my consent, be as great a coxcomb as ever wore red heels.

Whatever might be said of others, thou, at least, wast no coxcomb.

Having been a coxcomb in his youth, Fox was now degenerating into the sloven.

Let no one rashly pronounce me a coxcomb, vain and pretentious, for all this.

Heart, I took it for granted, he had none; how should a coxcomb come by a heart?

Somebody says, that nature may make a fool, but a coxcomb is always of his own making.

There was none of the concealed vanity of a coxcomb in this knowledge.

Word Value for coxcomb
Scrable

22

Words with friends

26

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