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- Dictionaryfop/fɒp/
noun
- 1. a man who is concerned with his clothes and appearance in an affected and excessive way.
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Fop became a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, fribble, popinjay (meaning 'parrot'), dandy, fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni was another term of the 18th century more specifically concerned with fashion. Wikipedia