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Fop vs Foppery - What's the difference?

fop | foppery |

As nouns the difference between fop and foppery

is that fop is a vain man; a dandy while foppery is the dress or actions of a fop.

fop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vain man; a dandy.
  • * 2010 ,
    • And she nearly started a fight between two young fops in plumed hats and flouncy collars: "Clay-brained coxcomb!" "Mewling milk-livered maggot!"

    Synonyms

    * (a vain man) dandy, dude, dood, masher, popinjay, coxcomb, metrosexual

    Derived terms

    * fopling * foppish

    See also

    * dandy * dude, dood * macaroni

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    foppery

    English

    Noun

    (fopperies)
  • The dress or actions of a fop
  • *{{quote-book, year=1902, author=G.K. Chesterton, title=Twelve Types, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And it is by their fopperies and their frivolities that we know that their sinister philosophy is sincere; in their lights and garlands and ribbons we read their indwelling despair. }}
  • Stupidity
  • *{{quote-book, year=1783, author=William Godwin, title=Four Early Pamphlets, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The energies of his mind led him to despise the fopperies of idolatry; and he found the Christians, in the most unfavourable situation, torn into innumerable parties, by the sectaries of Athanasius, Arius, Eutyches, Nestorius. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1867, author=Ralph Waldo Emerson, title=Poems, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Still, still the secret presses; The nearing clouds draw down; The crimson morning flames into The fopperies of the town. }}