Word of the Day | foppish

foppish •ˈfä-pish• adjective: affecting extreme elegance in dress and mannerThe word foppish has appeared in 14 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Aug. 17 in the restaurant review “Now Appearing in Chicago, a Restaurant in Footlights,” by Sam Sifton: CHICAGO–My first meal at Next was on a dank evening in June, the city breezy, coming off a rain. I arrived on foot. There were skateboarders shredding a high curb near a fish wholesaler as I moved west through <a href="http://www.graniteonshopping.com"><strong>marble stone</strong></a> the neighborhood, and a big, lively crowd at the Publican, Paul Kahan's beery farmhouse restaurant down West Fulton Market Street. Otherwise the sidewalks were empty save for parked trucks marked Nealey Foods and El Cubano Wholesale Meats.Next was buzzing as a theater buzzes before the curtain goes up. The dining room sits plain and unadorned beneath a ceiling that manages to suggest both a theater's lighting grid and the city's elevated train tracks. It derives liveliness from the people in its seats (some dressed in foppish Edwardian period costumes, as if just out of hansom cabs to eat at the Ritz) and from the servers and the food they place on the tables. But it is otherwise unremarkable and is clearly meant to be: its primary function is as a stage.The Word of <a href="http://www.lossweightclubs.com"><strong>diet tea</strong></a> the Day and its definitions have been provided by the Visual Thesaurus. Click on the word below to map it and hear it pronounced: