Obs. Also 7 phop. [Of uncertain origin; sense 2 agrees with Ger. foppen to hoax (see FOB v.). The precise relation between the vb. and sb. is uncertain; the sb. appears earlier.]
† 1. intr. To act like a fool; to play the fool.
a. 1529. Skelton, Replyc., 120.
| Whan ye logyke chopped, | |
| And in the pulpete hopped, | |
| And folysshly there fopped. |
2. trans. = FOB v.1 a. To make a fool of, cheat, dupe. Also to cheat into, out of. b. To fop off: = ‘to fob off.’
1602. Hering, trans. Oberndorff’s Anat. True Physit., 41. When he expected his present payment, he phopped him thus.
1604. Shaks., Oth., IV. ii. 197. I think it is scuruy: and begin to finde my selfe fopt in it.
1605. Lond. Prodigal, I. i. Sblood, what, doth hee thinke to fop of his posteritie with Paradoxes?
1690. Crowne, Eng. Friar, V. Dram. Wks. 1874, IV. 107. I’ll comfort myself by fopping Ranter into marriage. Ibid. (1694), Regulus, V. ibid., 211. Gis. We are all fopp’d here, fopp’d out of our lives.
