"fop" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /fɒp/ [Received-Pronunciation], /fɑp/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fop.wav Forms: fops [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒp Etymology: From Middle English foppe, fobbe (“fop, fool”). Akin to German foppen (“to jeer”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|foppe}} Middle English foppe Head templates: {{en-noun}} fop (plural fops)
  1. (dated) A vain man; a dandy. Tags: dated Categories (topical): People Synonyms: dude, dood, macaroni, masher, popinjay, dandy Derived forms: fopdoodle [obsolete], fopling, foppish Translations (vain man): конте (konte) (Bulgarian), parádník [masculine] (Czech), fintil [masculine] (Czech), dandy [masculine] (Czech), keikari (Finnish), bellâtre [masculine] (French), छैल (chail) [masculine] (Hindi), दम्भी (dambhī) (Hindi), बाँका (bā̃kā) (Hindi), aibhseoir [masculine] (Irish), baothán [masculine] (Irish), gaige [masculine] (Irish), scóitséir [masculine] (Irish), formaster [masculine] (Latin), ко́нте (kónte) [neuter] (Macedonian), хлыщ (xlyšč) [masculine] (Russian), щёголь (ščógolʹ) [masculine] (Russian), пижо́н (pižón) [masculine] (Russian), kicoš [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), gizdavac [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), petimetre [masculine] (Spanish), pisaverde [masculine] (Spanish), gomoso [masculine] (Spanish), dandi [masculine] (Spanish), currutaco [masculine] (Spanish), boquirrubio [masculine] (Spanish), lechuguino [masculine] (Spanish), sprätt [common-gender] (Swedish), toolap (Woiwurrung)

Inflected forms

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          "word": "dude"
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          "word": "dood"
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          "word": "macaroni"
        },
        {
          "word": "masher"
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        {
          "word": "popinjay"
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          "word": "конте"
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          "sense": "vain man",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "vain man",
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          "sense": "vain man",
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          "word": "bellâtre"
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          "code": "hi",
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          "roman": "chail",
          "sense": "vain man",
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          "word": "छैल"
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          "roman": "bā̃kā",
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          "word": "बाँका"
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          "sense": "vain man",
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          "sense": "vain man",
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "vain man",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "formaster"
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          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "kónte",
          "sense": "vain man",
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        },
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          "roman": "xlyšč",
          "sense": "vain man",
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          "sense": "vain man",
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          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "vain man",
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          "word": "gizdavac"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "vain man",
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          "word": "petimetre"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "vain man",
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          "sense": "vain man",
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          "sense": "vain man",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "vain man",
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      "word": "fopdoodle"
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      "word": "fopling"
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      "word": "scóitséir"
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      "sense": "vain man",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "formaster"
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      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kónte",
      "sense": "vain man",
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      "sense": "vain man",
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      "sense": "vain man",
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      "sense": "vain man",
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "vain man",
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      "sense": "vain man",
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      "sense": "vain man",
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      "sense": "vain man",
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      "sense": "vain man",
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "vain man",
      "tags": [
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "vain man",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "sprätt"
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      "code": "wyi",
      "lang": "Woiwurrung",
      "sense": "vain man",
      "word": "toolap"
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.