IF you ever need to put someone down, and want to get away with it, call them a foppotee.
This and hundreds of other words from the English language can be found at the Compendium of Lost Words (phrontistery.50megs.com) website.
These phrases aren't just rare, they are lost - unknown to modern English or Google and essentially consigned to a lingering death in the tombs of the Oxford English Dictionary.
By the way foppotee means simpleton.
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