dandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæn.di/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: dandies
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots dandy (“a fop; one who is well-dressed”). Of uncertain origin.
Possibly from Dandy, a diminutive of Andrew, yet the Scots word is used also in reference to women. Alternatively, possibly a back-formation of Scots dandilly, dandillie (“one who is spoiled or pampered; a "pet"”). Compare English dandle and dander.
Senses: examples: text: The gallant young Indian dandy at home on furlough — immense dandies these — chained and moustached — driving in tearing cabs, the pillars of the theatres, living at West End Hotels, — […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 60, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one—I mean a downright bumpkin dandy–a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter VI, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 68:
text: “Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town.”
ref: 1945, J. B. Priestley, chapter I, in An Inspector Calls:
glosses: A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.
glosses: Something excellent in its class.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
glosses: A dandy roller.
examples: text: Somebody quite as notorious as Brummell, but whose follies have been far more mischievous; whose eloquence is great, but certainly not always refined; and to whose health many a dandy of whisky has been tossed off.
ref: 1844, William Jesse, The life of George Brummell, page 57:
glosses: A small glass of whisky.
examples: text: Other notable instances of horse-drawn vehicles for passenger services were the dandies used on the two-mile branch to Inchture of the Perth-Dundee line of the Caledonian Railway […], and the 2½-mile branch of the North British Railway from Drumburgh to Port Carlisle. […] One of the Port Carlisle dandies was preserved at Waverley Station, Edinburgh, for several years, but is now in the Railway Museum at York.
ref: 1958 February 24, “Notes and News: The Fintona Tram”, in Railway Magazine, pages 139-140:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A horse-drawn railway carriage used on some branch lines.
Synonyms: word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
Hypernyms: word: effeminate man
word: fashionable person
word: man
Hyponyms: word: dandyling
word: dapperling
word: fopling
word: peacock
word: turkeycock
Coordinate terms: word: dandyess
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: apple dandy
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandification
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandify
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandizette
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandy brush
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandy cart
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandydom
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandyess
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandy fever
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandyish
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandyism
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandyize
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandy line
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandyling
sense: terms derived from dandy (noun)
word: dandy roller
Related terms: word: boulevardier
word: man about town
word: beautiful man
word: flirt
word: sensualist
word: foppish
word: idler