Fopling

Also 7–8 foplin, foppling. [dim. of FOP sb.: see -LING.] A petty fop.

1684.  J. Lacy, Sir H. Buffoon, II. ii. A Fop is the fruit of a Foplin, as a Wit is the kernel of a Witlin.

1726.  Amherst, Terræ Fil., xlvi. 97. I have observed a great many of these transitory foplings, who came to the university with their fathers (rusty, old country farmers) in linsey-wolsey coats, greasy sun-burnt heads of hair, clouted shoes, yarn stockings, flapping hats, with silver hat-bands, and long muslin neckcloths run with red at the bottom.

1807–8.  W. Irving, Salmagundi (1824), 215.

1885.  Miss Braddon, Wyllard’s Weird, II. vii. 204. Yes, there was the old ring in his voice, the old heartiness which had made Bothwell so different from the race of languid foplings—the haw-haw tribe.

  attrib.  1714.  Philips, in Steele’s Poet. Misc., 36.