Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Coxcomb |
CoxcombNoun1. A conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments. 2. A cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red. 3. The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coxcomb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a coxcomb, denotes a low state of mind. The dreamer should endeavor to elevate his mind to nobler thoughts. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Coxcomb An empty-headed, vain person. The ancient licensed jesters were so called because they wore a cock's comb in their caps. "Coxcombs, an ever empty race, Are trumpets of their own disgrace." Gay: Fables, xix. "Let me hire him too; here's my coxcomb." Shakespeare: King Lear, i. 4. The Prince of Coxcombs. Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne. (1535-1614.) Richard II. of England is sometimes called the Coxcomb. (1366, 1377-1400.) Henri III. of France was called le Mignon, which means pretty well the same thing. (1551, 1574-1589.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | COXCOMB. Anciently, a fool. Fools, in great families, wore a cap with bells, on the top of which was a piece of red cloth, in the shape of a cock's comb. At present, coxcomb signifies a fop, or vain self-conceited fellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CoxcombSynonyms: cockscomb (n), comb (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fop | Noun: fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat; exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man; fribble, milliner; Jemmy Jessamy, carpet knight; masher, dude. |
Vanity | Vox et praeterea nihil; cheval de bataille. coxcomb; Sir Oracle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Coxcomb |
| English words defined with "coxcomb": Coxcombical, Coxcombly, Coxcombry ♦ Princox. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "coxcomb": COKES, COURT CARD ♦ Foppington ♦ Lord Foppington ♦ PUPPY. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Music |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Captain Morgan, Rifle Corps, A.D.C. to General Bernard, on Coxcomb the winner of the Crimean races, the property of Captain Barnard, Grenadier Guards. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Coxcomb" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Coxcomb" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
coxcomb | 10 |
coxcomb flower | 6 |
coxcomb seed | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "coxcomb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | spitullaq (dude, guy), mendjefyçkë (featherbrain, featherbrained). (various references) | |
Arabic | المغرور (bumptious, egoist, puppy, upstart, wise guy, wiseacre), أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самодоволен глупак, франт (cockscomb, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes). (various references) | |
Czech | chvastoun (Bigmouth, braggart, loudmouth, Roisterer, swank). (various references) | |
French | muscadin. (various references) | |
Greek | φιλάρεσκοσ (coquetish, coquette, coquettish, dandified, dressy), φαντασμένοσ (bumptious, cocky, conceited, hoity toity, jackanapes, ladida, opinionated, priggish, self-conceited, self-important, smug, snobbish, snooty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy), λειρί (comb, crest). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כרבולת (cock's comb, crest), ' "רן (beau, dude, fop, jack-a-dandy, mollycoddle), טרזן (fop, prissy, swell, toff). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csörgõsapka, bolond (batty, berk, bonkers, cracked, crackpot, crazed, crazy, daft, dement, demented, dippy, droll, fool, foolish, goofy, hare-brained, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, moonstruck, nutter, nutty, off the beam, ratty, scatty, screwy, to be not such a fool as people make out, to be nuts, to be up the pole, up the pole). (various references) | |
Italian | berretto da giullare. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 見 坊 (dude, fop, swell, vain person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | みえぼう (dude, fop, swell, vain person). (various references) | |
Manx | spryt, keyjeen (cockscomb, comb), kereen (comb, crest, pack, topknot), frit (bagatelle, fop, frivol, trifler), friplas (dandy, fop). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oxcombcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | crista-de-galo (cockscomb), janota (chappy, cock-a-hoop, dandy, dapper, dude, fop, swell, toff, trig), barrete (barret, barrette, beret, bonnet, cap, coif, toque). (various references) | |
Romanian | creastã de cocoş (cockscomb, comb), tichia prostului (cap and bells), filfizon (Dandy, dandyish, dude, fop, jackanapes, Johnny, La-di-da, macaroni, Peacock), fante (dude, jackanapes, Johnny, masher), fanfaron (blusterer, boastful, braggart, Hector, swaggerer, vainglorious, windbag). (various references) | |
Russian | самодовольный хлыщ, щеголь (beau, fop, Jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, swaggerer, trig), хлыщ (dude, fop, popinjay, smart aleck), фат (dude, fop, popinjay). (various references) | |
Scottish | bùban. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uobražen čovek, kapa dvorske budale (fool's cap, foolscap), fićfirić (lovelace). (various references) | |
Spanish | cresta de gallo (cockscomb), cresta de crías de gallina, mequetrefe (jackanapes, whippersnapper), fatuo (conceited, fatuous, popinjay). (various references) | |
Swedish | sprätt (beau, blood, cockscomb, dandy, dude, fop, gallant, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, popinjay, toff). (various references) | |
Turkish | züppe (adonis, beau, buck, conceited pup, dandified, Dandy, dude, fop, high hat, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, La-di-da, la-di-dah, macaroni, nob, Peacock, petit-maitre, popinjay, pup, puppy, snob, spark, swell, toff), horoz ibiği çiçeği, horoz ibiği (cockscomb), bobstil. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фат (cockscomb, exquisite, fop), блазенський ковпак (cockscomb), піжон (zooty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | công tử bột người tự phụ, người tự mãn, người hợm hĩnh. (various references) | |
Welsh | coegyn (beau), coegddyn (fool, fop). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coxcomb": coxcombical, coxcombries, coxcombry, coxcombs. (additional references) | |
| |
"Coxcomb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cocom, Colcombe, Coscom, coxcombed, coxcomp, Foxcombe, Goscombe, Lorcomb. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-c-m-o-o-x" | |
-2 letters: combo, coomb. | |
-3 letters: boom, coco, comb. | |
-4 letters: boo, box, cob, coo, cox, mob, moc, moo, oxo. | |
-5 letters: bo, mo, om, ox. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-c-m-o-o-x" | |
+1 letter: coxcombs. | |
+2 letters: coxcombry. | |
+4 letters: coxcombical, coxcombries. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
