英语词汇coxcomb的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	coxcomb
词源	coxcomb n. "a vain, shallow fellow, a fop," 1570s, from cokkes comb (1560s, see cockscomb), the name of a device worn in the cap by licensed fools. Johnson has coxcomical (adj.) "foppish, conceited," but discourages it as "a low word unworthy of use." Entries linking to coxcomb cockscomb n. c. 1400, "comb or crest of a cock," from possessive of cock (n.1) + comb (n.). Meaning "cap worn by a professional fool" is from 1560s; hence "conceited fool" (1560s), a sense passing into the derivative coxcomb. As a plant name, from 1570s. updated on April 27, 2018
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coxcomb n.