Victor Mote wrote:
Victor,It must be a cultural thing. The dictionary definition you gave should tell the story well enough -- see the example "felt contempt for the mincing ...". The word is a pejorative, but perhaps more so in my part of the world, where calling someone a "fop" or a "dandy" might be fighting words. In my mind it connotes "sissy" on one end of the scale and "big hat, no cattle" on the other. This is all partially mitigated by the fact that the word is pretty much in disuse, so maybe nobody else knows what it means.Finding myself in the minority, I withdraw the question. I intended no offence. As a workaround, please don't be offended if I continue to treat the name as an acronym instead of a word.
Re my comment on this, I thought I should warn you that I am addicted to ironical jokes, which can be a dangerous habit with email. I dislike emoticons, probably because I am more of a snob than I like to admit, but also because they seem to me to discourage any attempt either to write or to read the subtle - or the ironical! - from email. An advantage of the longevity of a forum like this is that we get to know each other's style, so I hope that my un-emoticoned attempts at humour are read as such. I'll see if I can squeeze one out.
....,; :) >;,....
Peter
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