Meaning of fopdoodle | Babel Free

Definitions

A stupid person; a fool, a simpleton.

obsolete

Examples

“And though you overcame the Bear⟳, / The Dogs beat⟳ you at Brentford Fair; / Where sturdy Butchers broke your Noddle, / And handl'd you like⟳ a Fop-doodle.”

“But among the whole Crowd of theſe Fopdoodles, there is none ſo frantick as my Rival Anſelm, who having the moſt juſt Complaints of any but my ſelf, to make⟳, and perhaps not without reaſon, does nothing all day long but bewail her Abſence, when he knows the way to her again; […]”

“Come⟳, come⟳, you brace of Fopdoodles, where's your French Barber you are both ſo fond of; […]”

“How often did I curse my unlucky fate, and envy the happy non chalance of the fopdoodles who surrounded me.”

“But Monsieur take⟳ care, of old England beware, / For her children are ready to rise⟳ at a ca'; / Your fopdoodle breeding and mountebank cleading, / John Bull he abhors you, flagaries an' a'.”

“"You two!" said Lady Margaret. "What will William Belet think⟳?" […] Finally Edith broke the silence. "He thinks we're fopdoodles!" she said. And they all laughed.”

“Oh, Marsh. When did you turn⟳ into such a boring old fopdoodle?”

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