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Dandy   /dˈændi/   Listen
Dandy

noun
(pl. dandies)
1.
A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.  Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell.
2.
A sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost.  Synonym: yawl.
adjective
1.
Very good.  Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell.  "A neat sports car" , "Had a great time at the party" , "You look simply smashing"



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"Dandy" Quotes from Famous Books



... dressed couple, leading by the hand a little girl clothed in silk and velvet, passed the seat on which they sat. The poor copyist raised his eyes to the young dandy and recognised a former colleague from the Board of Trade who, however, did not seem to see him. A feeling of bitter envy seized him with such intensity that he felt more humiliated by this "ignoble sentiment" ...
— Married • August Strindberg
... wonderfulest dogs I ever saw. So the minute I got the money for the check, I came here. I told the man in the front yard I wanted to buy a dog. He's the one who turned me over to you. I wish—OH!" he broke off in rapture, coming to a halt in front of Lass's run. "Look! Isn't he a dandy?" ...
— Bruce • Albert Payson Terhune
... "That's Dandy Jim Valentine's autograph. He's resumed business. Look at that combination knob—jerked out as easy as pulling up a radish in wet weather. He's got the only clamps that can do it. And look how clean those tumblers were punched out! Jimmy never has to drill ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... a dacent word—it will be just the dandy thing for yes entirely; go to it with a will, and make yourself as small as a little cock elven, and thin we'll have our revenge upon them aggravation thaves.' How the puck he done it nobody knows; ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, November 20, 1841 • Various
... "Fine and dandy!" mocked Rimrock. "You're right, I'm a sucker; and it's a shame to take my money. But I don't want ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge


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