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| neatly or trimly smart in dress or appearance; spruce: a natty white uniform. |
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adj. nat·ti·er, nat·ti·est Neat, trim, and smart; dapper. [Perhaps variant of obsolete netty, from net, elegant, from Middle English, from Old French; see neat1.] nat'ti·ly adv., nat'ti·ness n. |
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natty
1785, "neat, smart," originally slang, perhaps an altered form of 16c. nettie "neat, natty," from M.E. net "pure, fine, elegant" (see neat).
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| marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper] |
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Natty
Nat"ty\, a. [Cf. Neat clean.] Neat; tidy; spruce. [Colloq.] -- Nat"ti*ly, adv. -- Nat"ti*ness, n.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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