cockscomb

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

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