Coxcombically vs Coxcomb - What's the difference?
coxcombically | coxcomb |
(obsolete) in the manner of a coxcomb
* 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88
(obsolete) The cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe.
A foolish or conceited person; a dandy.
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* 2010 ,
The fleshy red pate of a rooster.
Coxcombically is a derived term of coxcomb.
As a adverb coxcombically
is (obsolete) in the manner of a coxcomb.As a noun coxcomb is
(obsolete) the cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe.coxcombically
English
Adverb
(-)- "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.
coxcomb
English
Noun
(en noun)- for though I am afraid the doctor was a little of a coxcomb , he might be nevertheless very much of a surgeon.
- And she nearly started a fight between two young fops in plumed hats and flouncy collars: "Clay-brained coxcomb !" "Mewling milk-livered maggot!"
