Coxcomb Definition

kŏkskōm
noun
A cap topped with a notched strip of red cloth like a cock's comb, formerly worn by jesters.
Webster's New World
A silly, vain, foppish fellow; dandy.
Webster's New World

The fleshy red pate of a rooster.

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Other Word Forms of Coxcomb

Noun

Singular:
coxcomb
Plural:
coxcombs

Origin of Coxcomb

  • Middle English cokkes comb crest of a cock cokkes genitive of cok cock cock1 comb crest comb

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English cokke's comb lit. "the comb of a cock"

    From Wiktionary

Coxcomb Sentence Examples

  • That he was a coxcomb and a bore, weak, vain, pushing, curious, garrulous, was obvious to all who were acquainted with him.

  • There is a legend that William Pitt the younger thought of her; the somewhat notorious lover of Mlle de Lespinasse, Guibert, a cold-hearted coxcomb of some talent, certainly paid her addresses.

  • Though no man was ever more free from anything like the egoism of the intellectual coxcomb, yet he abounded in that active self-confidence and self-assertion which is natural in men who are conscious of great powers, and strenuous in promoting great causes.

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