Dictionary

dandyish en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English dandy Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English dandyish From dandy + -ish.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of or resembling the style of a dandy.
   • His clothes were sombre, clean but not immaculate, pressed, but yesterday perhaps not today. In short, neither slovenly nor dandyish. 2002, Julian Rathbone, A Very English Agent, London: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 80:
   • The latter was a stranger to him but in the darkness, by the aid of the glowing cigarette tips, he could make out a pale dandyish face over which a smile was travelling slowly, a tall overcoated figure and a hard hat. 1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 83:
   • As he crossed the drawing room he acknowledged himself with a flattered smile in a mirror. He was wearing a wing collar, and something dandyish in him, some memory of the licence and discipline of being in a play, lifted his mood. 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

dandyishly · dandyishness

Synonyms

dudish · Woosterian · coxcombical · dandyistic · dandiacal · lily-handed · dandy · buckish · swellish · beauish · foppish · Jemmy-Jessamy · dandiacal · dandified · dandyish · foppish · macaronic · foppy