foppish
Example Sentences
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I am a whimsical fellow, as you doubtless remember, and have lately grown, they tell me, rather hippish besides.
From The Evil Guest by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
I want something of another cast; something that will urge me when I am hippish, without keeping me in order when I am whimsical.
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
I'm a hippish Hippopotamus, and don't know what to do, For the public is inconstant and a fickle one too; It smiled once upon me, and now I'm quite forgot.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 2
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East of Eden
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