Foppish

The word foppish has appeared in 14 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Aug. 17 in the restaurant review "Now Appearing in Chicago, a Restaurant in Footlights," by Sam Sifton: ❋ By THE LEARNING NETWORK (2011)

His whole dress and air was not what could properly be called foppish, it was rather what at that time was called "rakish." ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Fastidious, clever, slightly skeptical, accustomed to the best society (he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Marine for a year preceding his retreat from his profession and from Europe), he possessed a latent warmth of feeling and a capacity for sympathy which were concealed by a sort of haughty, arbitrary indifference of manner arising from his early training; and by a something an enemy might have called foppish, in his aspect -- like a distorted echo of past elegance. ❋ Unknown (1899)

(he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Marine for a year preceding his retreat from his profession and from Europe), he possessed a latent warmth of feeling and a capacity for sympathy which were concealed by a sort of haughty, arbitrary indifference of manner arising from his early training; and by a something an enemy might have called foppish, in his aspect -- like a distorted echo of past elegance. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)

But now the august Wall Street Journal officially declares that collar-poppin is not "foppish" a bit! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Similarly, Frederick Law Olmsted noted that many blacks in Richmond, Virginia, on a Sunday were “dressed with foppish extravagence, and many in the latest style of fashion.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

John Windsor-Cunningham strikes the right foppish note as the actor Beverly Carlton but no one is particularly good or bad. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)

Rumors have been swirling for years about the dignified perpetual bachelor, but TMZ can now confirm that sources close to sources have seen the foppish Prez "bending over a page when he's done with his reading." more ❋ Fortune's Stanley Bing (2011)

Toy poodle: This breed is always the most foppish of any dog in the category. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The lanky, foppish man behind the decks goes by the handle of DJ Night Train, though by day he answers to Jonathan Toubin. ❋ Andy Beta (2011)

In reality, the caricature of puritanical Roundheads fighting foppish Cavaliers, many of them poets, is one that historians have largely dismantled. ❋ Mark Archer (2011)

It's more like Michael Bolton's foppish cover of "Georgia on My Mind" (Senator, you're no Ray Charles) or maybe the introduction of New Coke (Young man, you will drink it and like it). ❋ Jeff DeGraff (2012)

Certainly NOT the foppish caricature that the GOP faithful paint. ❋ Unknown (2010)

No longer the foppish stereotype Brit, more high-minded Gary Cooper in Mr Deeds Goes to Town. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He had foppish hair and a patch of fur on his chin, looking rather like a he-goat, including the smile on his face. ❋ Julie Chibbaro (2011)

On the skeleton fingers of his right hand were no less than five rings -- not men's rings, nor women's, but foppish rings -- "that would fetch a price," ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's about this foppish libertine romping through space with a stolen book and his faithful robot man-servant; sleeping with statues, aliens, machines and even himself; en route to delivering the book to an outlaw publisher who might publish it to the masses against the wishes of the religious rulers of the galaxy. ❋ Marshallpayne1 (2009)