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A coxcomb is a man who thinks too much of his clothes and his looks, and is rather a fool. The word is old and ; you will find it in plays and novels from a few hundred years ago more than in the street today. Calling someone a coxcomb is an insult, but a slightly comic, dressing-room kind of insult, not a street-fight word. Though actually, it started as “cock’s comb”: the red crest on a ’s head, and the silly hat a wore that looked like one. So the first picture is a man as proud as a , wearing a fool’s cap. It has nothing to do with the cox in a boat, even though the spelling looks close.
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
coxcombnoun/ˈkɒks.koʊm/
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historicalThe cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe.
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The fleshy red pate of a rooster.
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A foolish or conceited person; a dandy.
- Thanks to my stars, I once can see / A window here from scribbling free! / Here no conceited coxcombs pass, / To scratch their paltry drabs on glass; / Nor party-fool is calling names, / Or dealing crowns to George and James.
- [F]or tho' I am afraid the Doctor was a little of a Coxcomb, he might be nevertheleſs very much of a Surgeon.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。