† ˈfopster 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, Why, do but try the fopster, and break it to him bluntly. |