fopling
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]fopling (plural foplings)
- (archaic) A petty fop.
- 1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- sit down to delineate a Momus or a Satyr, with at least as much complacency as a vulgar fopling or a partycoloured buffoon.
Further reading
[edit]“fopling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.