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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FOP, n. [The Latin voppa, a senseless fellow, is evidently from the same root, with the sense of emptiness or lightness.]
A vain man of weak understanding and much ostentation; one whose ambition is to gain admiration by showy dress and pertness; a gay trifling man; a coxcomb.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English; akin to Middle English fobben to deceive, Middle High German voppen Date: 15th century 1. obsolete a foolish or silly person 2. a man who is devoted to or vain about his appearance or dress ; coxcomb, dandy II. transitive verb (fopped; fopping) Date: circa 1590 obsolete fool, dupe

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. an affectedly elegant or fashionable man; a dandy. Derivatives: foppery n. foppish adj. foppishly adv. foppishness n. Etymology: 17th c.: perh. f. earlier fop fool

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fop Fop, n. [OE. foppe, fop, fool; cf. E. fob to cheat, G. foppen to make a fool of one, jeer, D. foppen.] One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Coxcomb, dandy, exquisite, beau, jackanapes, jack-a-dandy, macaroni, popinjay, swell, man milliner, man of dress, vain fellow.

Moby Thesaurus

Beau Brummel, arbiter of fashion, beau, blade, blood, boulevardier, buck, clotheshorse, clubman, clubwoman, coxcomb, dandy, deb, debutante, dude, exquisite, fashion plate, fashionable, fine gentleman, fribble, gallant, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, lady-killer, lounge lizard, macaroni, man-about-town, masher, mondain, mondaine, puppy, socialite, spark, sport, subdeb, subdebutante, swell, swinger, taste-maker, tone-setter, trend-setter