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87 lines
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{
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"fop":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a foolish or silly person":[],
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": a man who is devoted to or vain about his appearance or dress : coxcomb , dandy":[],
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": fool , dupe":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"he's such a fop that he drives nearly 50 miles just to get his hair cut by Monsieur Louis",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"From the very beginning, though, riders were also mocked as fops pursuing a ludicrous pastime. \u2014 Clive Thompson, Smithsonian , 21 Nov. 2019",
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"Cartoons of the period show caricatures of self-regarding young fops posing and preening with their monocles on full display. \u2014 Austin Grossman, The Atlantic , 13 Oct. 2019",
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"The artist\u2019s virile exemplars helped liberate gay men from society\u2019s cheap assignations \u2014 as mentally disturbed fops mincing out roles as faux women. \u2014 R. Daniel Foster, Los Angeles Times , 2 Oct. 2019",
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"No, those bewigged, Georgia-era fops didn\u2019t speak with a lisp. \u2014 John Kelly, Washington Post , 27 June 2018",
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"That fop Shaw-Asquith was right about that, at least! \u2014 Andrew Liptak, The Verge , 17 June 2018",
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"The next persona is Shipwrecked Sadie (Christina Day), a British fop in a court suit who has escaped from pirates and has a reverie about gender identity. \u2014 Dave Sturm, Columbia Flier , 16 Mar. 2018",
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"The surrounding players are exaggerated, one-note caricatures; Barrie\u2019s wife is a superficial shrew, her lover is a fop , the grandmother is stern and matronly, the promoter has a perpetual glint in his eye and the actors are campy. \u2014 Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 21 Feb. 2018",
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"Ferry, by nature shy and self-effacing, reinvented himself as a fop with issues. \u2014 Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com , 22 Feb. 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"circa 1590, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English; akin to Middle English fobben to deceive, Middle High German voppen":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8f\u00e4p"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"beau",
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"Beau Brummell",
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"buck",
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"dandy",
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"dude",
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"gallant",
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"jay",
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"lounge lizard",
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"macaroni",
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"pretty boy"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-045806",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"foppery":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": foolish character or action : folly":[],
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": the behavior or dress of a fop":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"regards the platform shoe as one of the unfortunate fopperies of the 1970s that should remain buried in fashion's scrap heap"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1546, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8f\u00e4-p(\u0259-)r\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"absurdity",
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"asininity",
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"b\u00eatise",
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"fatuity",
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"folly",
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"foolery",
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"idiocy",
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"imbecility",
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"inanity",
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"insanity",
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"lunacy",
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"stupidity"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083014",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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}
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} |