Dandy
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English
Adjective
Dandy (comparative dandier, superlative dandiest)
- Like a dandy, foppish.
- Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
- That's all fine and dandy, but how much does it cost.
- Almost first rate.
- What a dandy little laptop you have.
Noun
Dandy (plural dandies)- A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.
- (UK, nautical) A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
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Adjectives
amiable; professional; hypocritical; dapper; ingratiating; surreptitious; superficial; perfumed ; silk-stockinged.
Thesaurus
Beau Brummel, OK, ace, ace-high, arbiter of fashion, bad, bang-up, beau, beaut, blade, blood, bonzer, boss, boulevardier, buck, bully, but good, capital, clotheshorse, clubman, clubwoman, conceited, cool, corker, corking, coxcomb, coxcombical, crackerjack, daisy, dandified, darb, deb, debutante, delicious, dilly, dream, ducky, dude, exquisite, fab, famous, fashion plate, fashionable, fine, fine and dandy, fine gentleman, first-class, first-rate, first-string, fop, foppish, fribble, gallant, gear, glorious, grand, great, groovy, heavy, honey, hot, humdinger, hunky-dory, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, jam-up, just dandy, keen, killer-diller, knockout, lady-killer, lollapaloosa, lounge lizard, lulu, macaroni, man-about-town, marvy, masher, mean, mondain, mondaine, neat, nifty, nobby, okay, out of sight, peach, peachy, peachy-keen, pip, pippin, popinjay, prime, puppy, rake, ripping, rum, scrumptious, slap-up, smashing, socialite, solid, something else, spark, spectacular, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, sport, stunning, subdeb, subdebutante, superior, sweetheart, swell, swinger, taste-maker, terrific, the nuts, tone-setter, tough, trend-setter, whiz, wizard
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ændi
Translations
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See also
Finnish
Noun
Dandy
Declension
Declension of Dandy (type valo)
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