Brewer's: Coxcomb

An empty-headed, vain person. The ancient licensed jesters were so called because they wore a cock's comb in their caps.

Coxcombs, an ever empty race, Are trumpets of their own disgrace.

Gay: Fables, xix.

“Let me hire him too; here's my coxcomb.”

Shakespeare: King Lear, i. 4.

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