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Definition of Foplings
1. fopling [n] - See also: fopling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foplings
Literary usage of Foplings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Quaker of the Olden Time: Being a Memoir of John Roberts, by His Son by Daniel Roberts (1898)
"Hat-lifting, therefore, was a sign of a depraved and foreign fashion recently
brought to England. All sober men put on their hats, while wits and foplings ..."
2. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"I have a right in her by this betrothal. Seal your door up till you come back again!
I 'd have no foplings tampering with my wife! ..."
3. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"How vast his stock of calf ! when plenty Had filled his empty head and heart,
Enough to satiate foplings twenty, Could make his pantaloon ..."
4. The Rambler by Samuel Johnson (1809)
"... must not the sex be left to the foplings, the coxcombs, the libertines of the
age, whom they help to make such ? And need even these wretches marry, ..."
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