conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism. stiffness, formality, buckram; prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism; mauvais honte, false shame.

And even scrupulous neatness need bring with it no suspicion of puppyism.

Yet there is a kind of puppyism about the man that will probably prevent his ever achieving the highest place in our literature.