Dandy

Definition: Dandy

Dandy

Adjective

1. (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing".

Noun

1. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.

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Date "dandy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)

Etymology: Dandy \Dan"dy\, noun; plural Dandies. [Compare to French dandin, ninny, silly fellow, dandiner to waddle, to play the fool; probably allied to English dandle. Senses 2&3 are of uncertain etymol.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Dandy

Fop

Noun: fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat; exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man; fribble, milliner; Jemmy Jessamy, carpet knight; masher, dude.

Humorist

Buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown; wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley; motley fool; pantaloon, gypsy; jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy; wiseacre, wise guy, smartass; fool.

Ship

Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine.

Crosswords: Dandy

Dutch (dandy, dude, fop), French (beau, Dandy, fop, foppery, foppish, toff), German (Dandy, dude, fop), Hungarian (beau), Romanian (Dandy, dude, fop), Spanish (Dandy, dude, dudgeon), Swedish (Dandy, jack-a-dandy).

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

He thinks that's me, and I think that's dandy. (The Narrow Margin; writing credit: Earl Felton; Martin Goldsmith)

That's dandy; other mothers have sons that invent steamboats and telephones and things (Captain Nice; writing credit: Norman Klenman)

The dandy lion sun scorch, (WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWBOYS GONE?; performing artist: Paula Cole)

I was the dandy (Hey Nineteen; performing artist: Steely Dan)

Dandy (1971)

Gem Dandy (1970)

A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

The Dandy Lion (1940)

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References

• Gibbs and Dandy PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Candy Is Dandy (Nancy Drew Notebooks, No 38) (reference)

• Dandy Dutch Recipes (reference)

• Jim Dandy [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

• Picture Me As Yankee Doodle Dandy and Other Nursery Rhyme Favorites (reference)

• Randy's Dandy Lions (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Yankee Doodle Dandy (reference)

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Music

• Yankee Doodle Dandy (Songs from the Original Film Soundtrack) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Dandy Wood. Credit: Library of Congress.

Th' kinky, dandy, slinkin' slim. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dandy Jim, from Carolina; a popular Negro melody, as sung by B. Williams / /Lith. of Endicott. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The provincial dandy wore longer spurs and fiercer moustaches

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "dandy": dandy brush ♦ Dandy fever ♦ Dandy line ♦ dandy roll ♦ Dandy roller ♦ the dandy. Additional references.

Beginning with "dandy": Dandy-cock, Dandy-hen, dandy-looking, Dandy-Walker, Dandy-Walker Syndrome.

Ending with "dandy": Handy-dandy, Handyy-dandy, Jack-a-dandy, jim-dandy, poet-dandy.

Albanian

Pispilluq (dashing, fop), I Veshur Me Kujdes Të Tepruar, I Shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), I Pispillosur (dandified, foppish), I Klasës Të Parë (cracking, first class, first rate), Gjë I Klasit Të Parë, Burrë I Veshur Me Kujdes Të Tepruar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممتاز (admirable, banner, best, bonny, boss, brave, choice, clipping, cool, deluxe, distingue, distinguished, ducky, elegant, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, extra, famous, fancy, fine, first class, first rate, first-string, mighty, noble, of first degree, outstanding, premium, prime, select, splendid, star, stellar, super, superb, superior, swell, thoroughbred, thumbs up, tiptop, top notch, vintage, wizard), ‏متأنق (dressed up, dressy, elegant, overnice, smart, stylish, swell), ‏مدهش (agape, amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, baffling, dumbfounding, marvellous, marvelous, out of this world, phenomenal, prodigious, ripping, staggering, startling, striking, stunning, surprising, topping, trembling, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), ‏الغندور شخص شديد التأنق, ‏الدندي مركب صغير ذو شراعين, ‏شىء من الطراز الأول. (various references)

Bulgarian 

Превъзходен, Контешки, Конте (Johnny), Нещо Екстра (Corker), Елегантен (Nobby, Tony), Франт, �'ид Едномачтов Кораб. (various references)

Chinese 

花花公子 (Dude). (various references)

Czech

Svìták (fashion-monger, fop, playboy, socialite, worldling). (various references)

Danish

paternoster (batcher with endless belt, paternoster, pater-noster). (various references)

Dutch

saletjonker (dude, fop), kwast (attitudinizer, dude, fop, knot, node, paintbrush, poseur), fat (dude, fop), dandy (dude, fop). (various references)

Esperanto

dando (dude, fop). (various references)

Faeroese

mótaprinsur (dude, fop), fínibeiggi (dude, fop). (various references)

Farsi 

فوکولی , خوش لباس (Gallant, Gash), خوش تیپ , شیک پوش (Ritzy). (various references)

Finnish

paternoster-onki (paternoster), keikari (fop, snob), hienostelija (fop, snob). (various references)

French

Dandy, Petit Bateau, pater-noster, Incroyable, Gandin, Élégant. (various references)

German

Stutzer (beau, blood, buck, dandies, dude, fop, spark), Geck (attitudinizer, buck, dude, fop, Peacock, popinjay, poseur), Dandy (dude, fop). (various references)

Greek 

paternoster (paternoster), έξοχοσ (eminent, excellent, fine, high, peachy, splendid, splendiferous, sterling, super, swell, tops, worthy), �"ανδήσ, δανδής (fop), ίομψεμένοσ, Φιλάρεσκοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ֲ� �"רן, ֹפ�" ֵמ�"ו�"ר, ־טורז, ־צוין, ַתיך, ָרזן. (various references)

Hungarian

remek (aces, bitching, bully, clinker, corking, crackajack, dashing, delicious, divvy, excellent, glorious, grand, great, helluva, ideal, jake, masterful, mind-blowing, nifty, prime, proud, racy anecdote, rattling, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, sniffy, spiffy, superb, swell, tall, thumbs up, to be all aces, top notch, wow). (various references)

Indonesian

pesolek (beau, dude, fop, nut, nutty). (various references)

Italian

Damerino (flirt, fopling, ponce), paternoster (paternoster, pater-noster), Elegante (chic, courtly, dapper, delicate, dressy, elegant, elegantly, fine, graceful, natty, nifty, plush, polite, posh, sleek, smart, snappy, stylish), Bellimbusto (dude), Affettato (affected, assumed, euphuistic, finical, foppish, genteel, labored, laboured, mincing, niminy-piminy, pretty-pretty, prim, prissy, sliced). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

伊�"者 (dude), 伊�"衆 (chivalrous person, gallant), 伊�"�"� (dude). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

� ておと�" (dude), � てしゃ (dude), � てしゅう (chivalrous person, gallant). (various references)

Manx

friplas (coxcomb, fop). (various references)

Norwegian

laps. (various references)

Pig Latin

andyday.(various references)

Portuguese

dândi (dude, fop, toff), almofadinha (dude, exquisite, fop, gallant). (various references)

Romanian

Dandy (dude, fop), Spilcuit (dapper, natty, sporty, swell, swish), Monden (dandyish, fashionable, worldly, worldly-minded), Grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), Filfizon (coxcomb, dandyish, dude, fop, jackanapes, Johnny, La-di-da, macaroni, Peacock), Elegant (daintily, dainty, dashing, dressy, elegant, fashionable, gallant, genteel, gentle, graceful, gracefully, jaunty, polite, smart, smartly, smug, spicy, stylish, swell, tasty, well-dressed). (various references)

Russian 

Превосходный, Щегольской, Щеголь (Johnny), �"енди, дэнди. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kicoški (cockscomb, dapper, foppish), kicoš (beau, cockscomb, dude, fop, jack-a-dandy, johnny, toff). (various references)

Spanish

De Primera (slap up), Dandy (dude, dudgeon), Dandi (dude, dudgeon), Soledad (cloistral, desolation, isolation, loneliness, orphanhood, privacy, solitude, wild), Raro (curious, definite, dignified, dingy, droll, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, few and far between, frothy, funny, ichneumon, infrequent, lead, odd, oddball, oddish, odds-on, outlandishness, peculiar, queerish, quirky, rare, rum, scarce, singular, strange, uncanny, unusual, vintage, weird), Paquete (gift, joke, lump, outstanding person, pack, package, packet, paper, parcel, task, trick, truss), Mono (ape, boiler suit, cute, dinky, dungarees, lovely, mimic, monkey, nice, nice-looking, overall, overalls, rompers), Maravilloso (amazing, blissful, delighted, delightsome, divine, dreamy, dressy, engaging, gorgeous, heavenly, knockout, lead, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, rare, stunning, well done, whimsical, wonderful, wondrous), Excelente (eminent, excellence, excellent, fine, golden, goodly, great, ripping, shining, solid, sterling, tiptop), Estupendo (admirable, amazing, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, first rate, grand, great, heavenly, hotstuff, jenny ass, marvellous, marvelous, neat, rare, rattling, ripping, socko, stunning, stupendous, super, super-duper, surprising, swell, terrific, wonderful, yippee), balancín (balance pole, balancer, outrigger, rocker, seesaw, singletree, sway-beam, yoke). (various references)

Swedish

Snobb (coxcomb, fop, high hat, jackanapes, macaroni, snob, swank, swell, toff). (various references)

Turkish

Düzgün (clear-cut, dandyish, fluent, formal, in good trim, ordered, regular, right, shapely, shipshape, slick, smooth, Spruce, Square, straight, trim, unruffled), Zarif (canny, classy, clever, courtly, dainty, dandyish, dinky, dressy, elegant, go-go, graceful, gracious, natty, neat, pretty, pulchritudinous, recherche, sharp, stylish, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy), Züppe (adonis, beau, buck, conceited pup, coxcomb, dandified, dude, fop, high hat, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, La-di-da, la-di-dah, macaroni, nob, Peacock, petit-maitre, popinjay, pup, puppy, snob, spark, swell, toff), Yetkin Kimse, Yaman (egregious), Mükemmel (accomplished, all around, alpha plus, ambrosial, bang up, banner, beyond praise, bully, capital, champion, classic, classical, classy, commanding, complete, consummate, cool, copybook, dreamy, elegant, excellent, famous, famously, faultless, fine, finished, first class, great, immense, jolly good, no mean, par excellence, perfect, ripping, scrumptious, slap up, smashing, smooth, solid, sovereign, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, splendiferous, super, superb, superlative, that takes the cake, the dandy, thorough, thoroughgoing, tiptop, to a turn, to the nines, topping, triumphant, unique), Kusursuz Þey, Küçük Yelkenli (Jigger, shallop, sloop), Hanım Evladı, Filika (boat, boat deck, cutter, dinghy, jolly boat, lifeboat, pinnace, yawl), Þık (Nobby, Spruce), Çıtkırıldım Tip. (various references)

Ukrainian

чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, ambrosial, bang up, beautiful, brave, bright, bully, capital, champion, charming, clinking, consummate, crack, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, flawless, glorious, goluptious, gorgeous, immense, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, peachy, posh, prime, princely, proper, providential, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard, wonderful), чепурун (buck, popinjay), Ошатний, Класний, Елегантний (Nobby), Франт (Jimmy, La-di-da), Фат, �"енді, Бездоганно Одягнена Людина. (various references)

Vietnamese 

diện; bảnh bao, tuyệt diệu (marvellous, superexcellent), người ăn mặc bảnh bao diêm dúa, người ăn mặc đúng mốt, cái đẹp nhất, ưu tú (capital, excellent, noble, ripping, stellar, top-hole, top-notch), đúng mốt hạng nhất. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dandy": dandyish, dandyishly, dandyism, dandyisms. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dandy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adedy, Adney, andy, Dabney, da-dt, Dady, Daldry, damy, Dand, Dandi, Dandie, Dandin, Dandit, dangy, danny, Danoy, dansy, danty, dany, Dauney, dawdy, Dawnay, Dedni, Dendix, denty, denvy, didy, didya, dindy, dnady, dond, donty, dundic, Dundry, Dundy, dunvy, kandy, nandy, pandy, tandy, zandy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dyad.

-2 letters: add, and, any, dad, day, nay.

-3 letters: ad, an, ay, na, ya.

+2 letters: dandify, dandily, dryland.

+3 letters: bendayed, caddying, candidly, cyanided, dandyish, dandyism, didynamy, landlady, pandowdy, vandyked, waddying, yardland, yardwand.

+4 letters: anhydride, candidacy, dandruffy, dandyisms, decadency, dynamited, grandaddy, hendiadys, yardlands, yardwands.

+5 letters: anhydrides, dandifying, dandyishly, decadently, dependably, didynamies, downplayed, downwardly, granddaddy, redundancy, standardly, syndicated, uncandidly, undismayed.