cockscomb

Meanings

Plural: cockscombs

Noun

• garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
• a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
• a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
• the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
• The fleshy red crest of a rooster
• A red cap once worn by court jesters
• A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
• An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers
• A conceited dandy
• A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed

Synonyms

barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, Celosia argentea cristata, Celosia cristata, cockscomb, comb, common cockscomb, coxcomb, dandy, dike, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, Jemmy-Jessamy, jetter, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, petit maître, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, smart, spark, spiff, swell, tippy, toff