dandy
IPA: dˈændi
noun
- A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.
- (Britain, nautical) A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
- A dandy roller.
- (UK, Ireland, slang, archaic) A small glass of whisky.
- A surname.
- (Victoria, informal, in the plural) The Dandenong Ranges.
- (Victoria, informal, in the singular) Clipping of Dandenong. [A town in Victoria, Australia]
adjective
- Like a dandy, foppish.
- Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
- Excellent; first-rate.
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Examples of "dandy" in Sentences
- The template looks fine and dandy.
- How the Dandy rocks more than the Beano.
- He also used to draw Sneaker for The Dandy.
- The Dandy began in 1937 and The Beano in 1938.
- The chairman of the company was Henry Dandy Seymour.
- I've also read the books in the handy dandy biography.
- Say, that's a dandy pin you've got on, simply _dandy_!
- The Dandy In a manner, the dandy was the male counterpart ...
- The film also documents the befriended band The Dandy Warhols.
- Dandy was the mascot of the New York Yankees between 1980 and 1985.
- A dandy and an epicure, Symons devoted much of his energy to fine living.
- In the case of the Dandy Roll, the watermark is pressed into the wet pulp.
- And smart, good-natured, well-spoken, and elegant enough to be called a dandy.
- It was Susan Sontag, who said that being a dandy was a way of being an individual in an age of mass culture.
- "What! Have you quite forgotten the titled dandy for whom you were near breaking your heart three years ago?
- In a manner, the dandy was the male counterpart of the professional beauty: he had no other occupation than to devote himself to being clever, witty, well-dressed and amusing.
- So your dandy is promoting a 60s era NIMBY mindset that is likely just headed towards making the socially disadvantaged even more entrenched in their poverty, and more desperate in their behaviours.
- What amuses me most is that the ultra-conservatives who yell and scream about casino gambling being a sin, etc., think it's freekin dandy when Wall Street invents transactions to do the same thing and purposefully makes them so complicated that it's hard to discern that it's just plain old gambling at its core.