fop
Speech parts
1. fop - Noun
2. fop - Adjective
3. Fop - Proper noun
Meaning
One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
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The solemn fop significant and budge A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.
A fop sometimes gives important advice.
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
“Specifically, Chief Ricciardi included a page of the FOP Hillside Lodge 82 contract, which authorizes the payment of the stipend, knowing that Sgt. Vega was not entitled to such stipend.
Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette.
“On 10/29, the National Fraternal Order of Police posted a photo of a Philadelphia police officer carrying a young child at the scene of a civil disturbance,” Jessica T. Cahill, a press liaison for the FOP, wrote in the statement Friday.