fopling

noun

fopling

noun

Etymology From fop + -ling.

1

Archaic A petty fop.

sit down to delineate a Momus or a Satyr, with at least as much complacency as a vulgar fopling or a partycoloured buffoon.1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

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