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UK
/kˈɒkskəʊm/
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NOUN
- a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
How To Use coxcomb In A Sentence
- As an afterthought, the red-headed girl suddenly added, ‘Good gracious, that Adam Weatherly is such a coxcomb.’
- “Never, while there are empty-pated coxcombs at each corner to keep it warm.” The Abbot
- The best way of self-cultivation is to wipe out the coxcombical mirage, so as to return to the syncretism of inside and outside.
- After all, it’s not everyday you’re called a “dankish pinch-spotted coxcomb!” Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Click Here: Keeping it Light Edition
- Wouldn't that be egg all over the face of the dizzy-eyed coxcomb of a Prime Minister.
- He is a silly and superficial man, a fop or coxcomb.
- Remember the words of Captain Fluellen: "If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also be an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb? Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch
- In his manner there was nothing of the supercilious apathy which characterizes the dandy introduced to some one whom he doubts if he can nod to from the bow-window at White's, -- none of such vulgar coxcombries had Lord Castleton; and yet a young gentleman more emphatically coxcomb it was impossible to see. The Caxtons — Volume 11
- In my way home through the Borough I met a venerable old man, not a mendicant, but thereabouts; a look-beggar, not a verbal petitionist; and in the coxcombry of taught charity I gave away the cake to him. Selected English Letters
- The thoughts of becoming a subject of raillery for coxcombs, and losing my money to boot, stung me to the quick; but I made a virtue of my indignation, and swore that no man should with impunity either asperse the character of Melinda, or turn my behaviour into ridicule. The Adventures of Roderick Random
