coxcombical
adjEtymology
From coxcomb + -ical.
- inherited from cokke
Definitions
Like, or in the style of, a coxcomb.
- The majority of these idlers were impudent-looking braggarts, who, with jaunty air and coxcombical show of superiority, endeavoured to enforce their own opinions, and to silence those of every one else.
- Marlow is a coxcombical prig, that is the truth on't; and if a man will expose himself, why, he must even take what follows.
- Of Wordsworth's demeanour and physical presence, De Quincey's account, silly, coxcombical, and vulgar, is the worst; Carlyle's, as might be expected from his magical gift of portraiture, is the best.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA