foppery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The dress or actions of a fop. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. Stupidity. countable,uncountable
    — This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, / when we are sick in fortune,–often the surfeit / of our own behavior,–we make guilty of our / disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as / if we were villains by necessity; fools by / heavenly compulsion […]

词形变化

fopperies plural

词源

Etymology tree
English fop
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English foppery
From fop + -ery.
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