fop

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FOP, noun [The Latin voppa, a senseless fellow, is evidently from the same root, with the sense of emptiness or lightness.] A vain man of weak understanding and much ostentation; one whose ambition is to gain admiration by showy dress and pertness; a gay trifling man; a coxcomb.
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