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Definition of Fopling
1. n. A petty fop.
Definition of Fopling
1. Noun. (archaic) A petty fop. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fopling
1. someone who is vain [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fopling
Literary usage of Fopling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"In The Man of Mode, or Sir fopling Flutter, which was produced in 1676 with an
... 1 fopling is mentioned with other characters by 'gentle George' as ..."
2. The British Essayists;: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"The present paper shall be employed upon Sir fopling Flutter*. The received
character of this play ... Sir fopling was Bean Hewit, *on of Sir Thomas Hewit, ..."
3. Memoirs of His Own Life by Tate Wilkinson (1790)
"... from Sir fopling Flutter. " Wherever I go, there goes a gentleman— " upon my
life .a gentleman, and when you have " faid a gentleman, why, O ! ..."
4. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Sil- fopling is a fool so nicely writ, The ladies would mistake him for a wit;
... Yet none Sir fopling him, or him can call ; He 's knight o' th' shire, ..."
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