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- noun obsolete A
stupid orinsignificant fellow; afool ; asimpleton .
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Examples
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That brought to mind the examples I encountered when I was editing an edition of Dr Johnson's Dictionary a few years ago, so I mentioned one: fopdoodle, meaning a foolish dandy, or prig.
Archive 2010-06-01 DC 2010
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That brought to mind the examples I encountered when I was editing an edition of Dr Johnson's Dictionary a few years ago, so I mentioned one: fopdoodle, meaning a foolish dandy, or prig.
On needed words DC 2010
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The presenter asked me whether there were lost words in the language that ought to be resuscitated, ... so I mentioned one: fopdoodle, meaning a foolish dandy, or prig ....
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Well, everyone thought it was a wonderful word - even the continuity announcer at the end of the programme, who described the producer as a fopdoodle.
Archive 2010-06-01 DC 2010
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Well, everyone thought it was a wonderful word - even the continuity announcer at the end of the programme, who described the producer as a fopdoodle.
On needed words DC 2010
qms commented on the word fopdoodle
A caricature can be quite crude
Or subtly by details allude:
A chap with a poodle
Will seem a fopdoodle
But a guy with a mastiff's a dude.
March 31, 2016