Definitions
Fine, stylish, or excellent.
Word origin
Borrowed from Scots dandy (“a fop; one who is well-dressed”). Of uncertain origin.
Used in a sentence
“The gallant young Indian dandy at home on furlough — immense dandies these — chained and moustached — driving in tearing cabs, the pillars of the theatres, living at West End Hotels, — […]”
“No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one—I mean a downright bumpkin dandy–a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.”
““Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Stylish fellow”5 letters
02“Fine and excellent”5 letters
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