12 Verbs to Use for the Word coxcomb

I. Novel (a pert railing coxcomb).

Shadwell, an acute observer of nature, in one of his comedies describes a formal coxcomb of this class, who courts his mistress out of the "Grand Cyrus," and rejoices in an opportunity of showing, that his passion could subsist in despite of her scorn.

Lord Foppington pays her amorous attentions, but she utterly despises the conceited coxcomb, and treats him with contumely.

I must not talk of thatI despised him, hated him, pretended to teach him his duty, by behaving better to her than he didthe spiritual coxcomb that I was!

I have supped with ; but I am growing a coxcomb.

Mr Taylor, I shall turn the better bill-man[A], and knock that little coxcomb of yours, if you do not answer me what I owe you.

Sometimes the dear creatures went for a stroll in the Mall, there to meet the English coxcombs with French manners, or else they paid a few visits.

[To the WHITE PILE, looking insolently at his docked comb]that you look like a Fool who has mislaid his coxcomb!

hoc Shall pash his coxcomb such a knock, As that his soul his course shall take To Limbo and Avernus' lake.

Harkness's personality rasped him to the raw, and he had for days struggled against an utterly absurd but insistent desire to seize the little coxcomb by the throat and squeeze the arrogance out of him as juice is squeezed out of a lemon.

" "No, Rupert," answered Lucy, in a tone which I thought could not fail to bring the heartless coxcomb to some sense of the feeling he ought to manifest; "I am going to no Springs.

All the colours in the rainbow Serve to spread the peacock's train; Half the lustre of his feathers Would turn twenty coxcombs vain.

12 Verbs to Use for the Word  coxcomb