a. Obs. Also 7 cockscombly. [f. COXCOMB + -LY1.] Resembling, or of the nature of, a coxcomb; characteristic of a coxcomb or fop.
1585. Lupton, Thous. Notable Th. (1675), 276. You coxcombly knave, said he, it is a Mill.
1611. Beaum. & Fl., Maid’s Trag., I. ii. My looks terrify them, you coxcombly ass, you!
1662–3. Pepys, Diary, 8 March. The fellow would not be known, which my Lord imputed to his coxcombly humour.
1739. Cibber, Apol. (1756), I. 124. With all the true coxcombly spirit and humour that the … character required.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xvi. Go … and may I never see thy coxcombly face again.
Hence † Coxcombliness.
1765. J. Hoadly, in Garrick’s Corr. (1831), I. 185. I thought that Dodd was deficient even in coxcombliness in the part of Lord George Brilliant.
