Dandy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A man who affects extreme elegance in clothes and manners; a fop.
  • n. Something very good or agreeable.
  • n. Nautical See yawl.
  • adj. Suggestive of or attired like a dandy; foppish.
  • adj. Fine; good.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Like a dandy, foppish.
  • adj. Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
  • adj. Almost first rate.
  • n. A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.
  • n. A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
  • n.
  • n. A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.
  • n. A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.
  • n. A dandy roller. See below.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A man who attracts attention by the unusual finery of his dress and a corresponding fastidiousness or display of manner; a man of excessive neatness and primness in his attire and action; an exquisite; a fop.
  • n. Something very neat or dainty. —
  • n. An accessory and diminutive appendix or attachment to a machine.
  • n. In tin-plate manuf., a running-out fire for melting pig-iron, the stack being built upon an open framework of iron, so that the melter has access to his fire from all sides.
  • Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a dandy or fop; foppish: as, dandy manners.
  • Neat; dainty; trim; gay.
  • n. A small glass: as, a dandy of punch.
  • n. A boatman of the Ganges. Also spelled dandie and dandee.
  • n. A conveyance used in India, consisting of a strong cloth slung like a hammock to a bamboo staff, and carried by two or more men. The traveler can either sit sidewise or lie on his back.
  • n. Nautical, a vessel rigged as a sloop, and having also a jigger-mast.
  • n. Same as dandy-roller.
  • n. See dengue.
  • n. A roller placed on a machine in advance of another, to perform a preliminary operation.
  • n. See dandy-roller.
  • n. An open-work basket or vessel, used cither to carry fuel, or to confine fuel in a larger grate, or to hold pig-iron in a furnace-hearth for preliminary heating.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
  • n. a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost
  • adj. very good
  • Equivalent
    good   
    Antonym
    shabby    slovenly   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    fine one   
    Variant
    dandier    dandiest    jigger    mizzen   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fop    coxcomb    foppish    smart    exquisite    dudish    coxcombical    jackanapish    buckish    dandified   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Andy    Brandi    Brandy    Candy    Handy    Mandie    Mandy    Randy    Sandie    Sandy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    foppish    middle-aged    dapper    effete    cavalier    talkative    gallant    neat