"Dandy" Definition

Definitions for the word "Dandy" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
(pl. -ies) 1 man greatly devoted to style and fashion. 2 colloq. Excellent thing. adj. (-ier, -iest) esp. Us colloq. Splendid. [perhaps from the name andrew]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
2. slang
a fop, or fashionable nondescript. This word, in the sense of a fop, is of modern origin. Egan says it was first used in 1820, and Bee in 1816. Johnson does not mention it, although it is to be found in all late dictionaries. DANDIES wore stays, studied a feminine style, and tried to undo their manhood by all manner of affectations which were not actually immoral. Lord Petersham headed them. At the present day dandies of this stamp have almost entirely disappeared, but the new school of muscular Christians is not altogether faultless. The feminine of DANDY was DANDIZETTE, but the term only lived for a short season.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
3. slang
a small glass of whisky.—_Irish._ “Dimidium cyathi vero apud Metropolitanos Hibernicos dicitur DANDY.”—_Father Tom and the Pope_, in _Blackwood’s Magazine_ for May 1838.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
4. slang
a boatman.—_Anglo-Indian._
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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