Fop Definition

fŏp
fops
noun
fops
A foolish person.
Webster's New World
A vain, affected man who pays too much attention to his clothes, appearance, etc.; dandy.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
abbreviation
Fraternal Order of Police.
Webster's New World
Fraternal Order of Police.
Wiktionary
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
Wiktionary
(travel, aviation) Form of payment.
Wiktionary
(finance) Free of payment, delivery of securities with no corresponding payment of funds.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Fop

Noun

Singular:
fop
Plural:
fops

Origin of Fop

  • Middle English fool probably akin to Middle English fob trickster, cheat fob2

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

  • From Middle English foppe, fobbe (“fop, fool”). Akin to German foppen (“to jeer”)

    From Wiktionary

Fop Sentence Examples

  • But only a literary fop can be detained by specks like these.

  • He wrote fables, allegories, satires, and a successful comedy of manners, The Swedish Fop. He outlived his chief contemporaries so long that the new generation addressed him as " Father Gyllenborg."

  • The narrator of these poems is himself, according to Combe, " the target fop who sees " (60 ).

  • Napoleon was here defeated, and with only 30,000 men at his back he was compelled to renounce all ideas of a further offensive, and he retired to rest his troops to Reims. Here he remained unmolested for a few days, fop Blucher was struck down by sickness, and in his absence nothing was done.

  • At the moment fop ' s memory consumption forbids compiling cookbooks with more than a couple of hundred recipes even on recent computers.

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Words Starting With

FFOFOP

Words Ending With

POPFOP

Unscrambles

fop

Words Starting With F and Ending With P

Starts With F & Ends With PStarts With FO & Ends With PStarts With F & Ends With OP

Word Length

3 Letter Words3 Letter Words Starting With F3 Letter Words Ending With P