dandy
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di noun
1.
a man who is excessively concerned about his clothes and appearance; a fop.
2.
Informal. something or someone of exceptional or first-rate quality: Your reply was a dandy.
adjective
3.
characteristic of a dandy; foppish.
4.
Informal. fine; excellent; first-rate: a dandy vacation spot.
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Dandy
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
dandy1 (ˈdændɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -dies | |
| 1. | a man greatly concerned with smartness of dress; beau |
| 2. | a yawl or ketch |
| —adj , -dies, -dier, -diest | |
| 3. | informal very good or fine |
| [C18: perhaps short for jack-a-dandy] | |
| 'dandily1 | |
| —adv | |
| 'dandyish1 | |
| —adj | |
| 'dandyism1 | |
| —n | |
| dandy2 (ˈdændɪ) | |
| —n | |
| another name for dengue | |
| dengue or dandy (ˈdɛŋɡɪ, ˈdændɪ) | |
| —n | |
| Also called: breakbone fever an acute viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, characterized by headache, fever, pains in the joints, and skin rash | |
| [C19: from Spanish, probably of African origin; compare Swahili kidinga] | |
| dandy or dandy | |
| —n | |
| [C19: from Spanish, probably of African origin; compare Swahili kidinga] | |
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Word Origin & History
dandy
c.1780, of uncertain origin, first appeared in a Scottish border ballad:
I've heard my granny cracketc. In that region, Dandy is dim. of Andrew. In vogue in London c.1813-19. His fem. counterpart was a dandizette (1821) with Fr.-type ending. The adjective dandy first recorded 1792; very popular c.1880-1900.
O' sixty twa years back
When there were sic a stock of Dandies O
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American Heritage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Which all sounds fine and dandy until you start applying it to particular cases.
All is fine and dandy in their imaginations, but the final results leave a bit to be desired.
That's fine and dandy if the article would call spade a spade.
Other magazines, newspapers and books also do a dandy job of filling space with weight that fritters away fuel.
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