Obs. [? alteration of FOPPER: see -STER.] App. a fool, simpleton.
(Halliwell has ‘fopster, a cutpurse’ with reference to Dekker; prob. a misreading of foyster, FOISTER.)
1607. W. S., Puritan, I. iv. Pye. Why, do but try the fopster, and break it to him bluntly.
