We will belabor you a little better,
And beat a little more care into your coxcombs.
Beau & Fl.
3. A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop.
Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy
Of powdered coxcombs at her levee.
Goldsmith.
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools.
Pope.
4. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. Same as Cockscomb.
Cox*comb"ic*al (k?ks-k?m"?-kal), a. Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited. -- Cox*comb"ic*al*ly, adv.
Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails.
W. Irving.
Cox"comb"ly (k?ks"k?m`l?), a. like a coxcomb. [Obs.] "You coxcombly ass, you!" Beau. & Fl.
Cox"comb`ry (-r?), n. The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.