coxcomb

He told me that Serjeant Clippinger had howled when he had seen it, jeering that the woman had sewn it wrong, and it was a perfect fit for a three-toothed black coxcomb like himself.

Stone, a coxcomb who occasionally texts reporters pictures of outfits he’s particularly proud of, no doubt already has his congressional-testimony suit picked out.

Johnson had already said of his former friend, “Hawkesworth is grown a coxcomb, and I have done with him”.

And here’s Charles Dickens, a preening coxcomb prepared to spend eternity congratulating himself on his own literary reputation.

J “Move along, you coxcomb,” Ignatius belched, the gassy eructations echoing between the walls of the alley.