foppery

English

Etymology

fop +‎ -ery

Noun

foppery (countable and uncountable, plural fopperies)

1. The dress or actions of a fop.
   • 1902, G.K. Chesterton, Twelve Types‎^[1]:

     And it is by their fopperies and their frivolities that we know that their sinister philosophy is sincere; in their lights and garlands and ribbons we read their indwelling despair.

2. Stupidity.
   • 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets‎^[2]:

     The energies of his mind led him to despise the fopperies of idolatry; and he found the Christians, in the most unfavourable situation, torn into innumerable parties, by the sectaries of Athanasius, Arius, Eutyches, Nestorius.

   • 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems‎^[3]:

     Still, still the secret presses;
     The nearing clouds draw down;
     The crimson morning flames into
     The fopperies of the town.

Translations

dress or actions of a fop

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: keikarointi (fi) pl
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• French: m’as-tu-vu (fr)
• Russian: пижо́нство (ru) n (pižónstvo) (actions)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

stupidity — see stupidity