Coxcombry
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkɒkskəmɹɪ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Coxcombry is a noun meaning (countable) A behaviour or manner that is characteristic of a coxcomb; a foppish behaviour.
Meaning
(countable) A behaviour or manner that is characteristic of a coxcomb; a foppish behaviour.
More Meanings
- (uncountable) Behaviour or airs characteristic of a coxcomb; foppishness.
Example Sentences
He was clean shaved; clean shaving is a favorite coxcombry of the deacon class.
He paused, grimly regarding it, while a dash of pleased coxcombry seemed to mingle with the otherwise savage satisfaction expressed in his face.
A man emasculated by coxcombry may spend more time upon the arrangement of his clothes than any woman, but even then there is no fetichism in his idea of them--they are still only a covering he uses for a time.
There was a half-sigh floating through his pages for those days of intellectual coxcombry, when ideas come to us affecting the embraces of virgins, and swear to us they are ours alone, and no one else have they ever visited: and we believe them.
Word Forms
- coxcombries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include coxcombicality, cockscomb, coxcomb, comb-over, comb, coggery.
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