"fop" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /fɒp/ [Received-Pronunciation], /fɑp/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fop.wav [Southern-England] 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, {{m|enm|fobbe||fop, fool}} fobbe (“fop, fool”), {{m|de|foppen||to jeer}} foppen (“to jeer”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} fop (plural fops)
  1. (dated) A vain man; a dandy. Tags: dated Categories (topical): People Synonyms (a vain man): dandy, dude, dood, masher, popinjay, coxcomb, metrosexual, barbermonger Derived forms: fopdoodle [obsolete], fopling, foppish Related terms: dandy, dude, dood, macaroni 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)

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      "sense": "vain man",
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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.