coxcombly

“Go; and may I never see thy coxcombly face again.”

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

Here's been murder done, and, look'ee, this coxcombly captain hath got it into his skull that you're the murderer -- aye, and what's worse, every soul aboard likewise save only

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

I imagined, too, there was sometimes as much Skill to be shewn in a short Part, as in the most voluminous, which he generally made choice of; that even the coxcombly Follies of a Sir John Daw might as well distinguish the Capacity of an Actor, as all the dry Enterprizes and busy Conduct of a Truewit.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

"Go; and may I never see thy coxcombly face again."

The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

Ah! My dear Lady Froth, she's a most engaging creature, if she were not so fond of that damned coxcombly lord of hers; and yet I am forced to allow him wit too, to keep in with him.

The Double-Dealer, a comedy William Congreve 1699

Ah! My dear Lady Froth, she's a most engaging creature, if she were not so fond of that damned coxcombly lord of hers; and yet I am forced to allow him wit too, to keep in with him.

The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] William Congreve 1699

Whetstone was a great folly; and the story how my Lord being at dinner with Sydney, one of his fellow plenipotentiarys and his mortal enemy, did see Whetstone, and put off his hat three times to him, but the fellow would not be known, which my Lord imputed to his coxcombly humour

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

Whetstone, and put off his hat three times to him, but the fellow would not be known, which my Lord imputed to his coxcombly humour (of which he was full), and bid Sydney take notice of him too, when at the very time he had letters in his pocket from the King, as it proved afterwards.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 21: March/April 1662-63 Samuel Pepys 1668

Whetstone was a great folly; and the story how my Lord being at dinner with Sydney, one of his fellow plenipotentiarys and his mortal enemy, did see Whetstone, and put off his hat three times to him, but the fellow would not be known, which my Lord imputed to his coxcombly humour

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

My Lord, among other discourse, did tell us of his great difficultys passed in the business of the Sound, and of his receiving letters from the King there, but his sending them by Whetstone was a great folly; and the story how my Lord being at dinner with Sydney, one of his fellow plenipotentiarys and his mortal enemy, did see Whetstone, and put off his hat three times to him, but the fellow would not be known, which my Lord imputed to his coxcombly humour

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1662/63 Pepys, Samuel 1663