Definitions for foppery

foppery fop·per·y

Spelling: [fop-uh-ree]
IPA: /ˈfɒp ə ri/

Foppery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in foppery (efoppry).

Definitions for foppery

noun

  1. the clothes, manners, actions, etc., of a fop.
  2. something foppish.

Origin of foppery

First recorded in 1540-50; fop + -ery

Examples for foppery

So that, were we to try our best at foppery, we could not now succeed.

So foppery and foolery are tolerated from habit and intimacy.

It is the triumph of insignificance, the apotheosis of foppery and folly.

In this respect the eighteenth century, for all its foppery, was ahead of ours.

They despised wealth just as other nations despise effeminacy and foppery.

He hated show and foppery, and a weakness in that direction often got reproof.

Forced complaisance is foppery; and affected easiness is ridiculous.

The falsity that proceeds from ignorance does not offend me, but the foppery of it.

Theron looked at his interrogator with a frown of disdain for his foppery.

In seeking to avoid slovenliness readers often fall into foppery.

Word Value for foppery
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

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