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Definition of dandy:

  • (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
  • (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost
  • (adjective) very good

Sentence Examples:

He was a bit of a nautical dandy in his way.

What do I look like, a dandy or a scarecrow?

"A dandy stunt!"

"You swaggering dandy!"

Gee, you look dandy!

The putty-faced dandy!

"Gee, that's dandy!"

Looted is a dandy word.

Exclaimed the crestfallen dandy.

"Maria can make dandy waffles."

A dandy span of mares.

"She's got a dandy muffler."

Certainly he was an immaculate dandy.

Gee, it was a dandy farm.

"It's perfectly dandy," exclaimed Kit.

"We could have a dandy skate."

"All fine and dandy," he muttered.

No dandy bandit in that outfit.

I've got some cubs that are dandies.

I thought they'd make a dandy bonfire.

"Isn't that a dandy pair of antlers?"

Exclaimed the dandy, with well-feigned astonishment.

Really, the dandy has surpassed himself.

However, the dandy funk went begging.

He'll give yew a dandy time, John.

Why is a carpenter like a languid dandy?

They are coward patriots and criminal dandies.

The flaunting dandy strolls about the stand.

"What the deuce keeps that sneaking dandy?"

Dandy proved to be a faithful, serviceable ox.

Said the little dandy, with a disdainful air.

Of course the terrier was Hilda's lost Dandy.

For now the apotheosis of dandies was approaching.

He knows where you can get dandy buttermilk.

"She is a dandy climber," said the lieutenant musingly.

We want a dandy big pelt out of this!

Don't you see that your soldiers are cripples, dandies?

They will make dandy fish balls and chowder.

This somewhat assimilated him to the fashionable dandy.

She thought the dandies were two misshapen idiots.

"Is it the French dandy as was at Hawkins's?"

The real dandy affects a garment of dazzling whiteness.

Her steel bulkheads would make it a dandy oven.

Carlyle considers him to have been a mere "sulky dandy."

The friends heard the Central High dandy exclaim.

That dandy will anon be as gay as a peacock.

A party of fair-haired young English dandies met us.

There was an end of the headman and Dandy!

The once resplendent dandy was now a sorry sight.

"A feller I know of has, an' it's a dandy!"

"You did not see a small dandy prowling about there?"

"Say, but that was a dandy shoot the chutes!"

He must have a dandy suit to strut about the town.

"The rascally dandy must have stayed on at the tenant's."

It surely was neatly done and had a dandy line-up.

He is a most accomplished gentleman, witty, brilliant, an inimitable dandy.

Was this the boyish red-coated dandy she had despised?

What makes that scented dandy meddle with such matters?

He did not like Utterly's looks; he was an effeminate dandy.

Into this he noiselessly feels his way and Dandy follows.

The men wouldn't mind, and she'd make a dandy mascot.

The finished dandy looks contemptible by the side of these.

There were two dandy blokes come out of there this morning.

Such a thing as a "dandy" was particularly distasteful to him.

Dandy wags his tail so hard you can scarcely see it.

A flawless dandy, he would be annoyed if he were considered romantic.

Dandy was a terrier, and his master's almost inseparable companion.

That dandy gal I've heard you wish was your own daughter?

A dandy gent with his blue eyes an' curly, tow hair.

Altogether the little man was quite a dandy and radiated prosperity.

The elegance of this equipage made the dandies spring to their feet.

There are thirty-six American Ambulance men, and some of them are dandies.

Rather an impressive kind of dandy was that wizened little animal.

Compared to us unkempt wretches, he was as a dandy to a tramp.

Four valuable hours sitting around in your dandy new suit of evening clothes.

He was scarcely the brainless young dandy that I had imagined.

Kathleen, peeping through the curtains of her dandy, saw it all.

You know that my passion for this old dandy is incorrigible.

Yet the mind of the complete dandy is well worth plumbing.

Many a delectable dandy coveted unconsciously the lot of Gabriel Strong.

He was evidently something of a dandy, for his clothes were immaculate.

You allowed that strutting dandy to carry them off before your eyes.

"Charmingly sung," he observed to a dandy sitting on his left side.

The general effect which he produced was that of a poetical dandy.

He dismounted, and assisted in lifting the dandy out of the rice.

It's a dandy one, your favorite poplar, and it's floating down stream.

A couple of dandies wore velvet smoking-caps with tassels, and red sashes.

I wish you could have lived in that dandy bungalow all summer.

The language and the waistcoats of those dandy days were alike flowery.

"I think this would make a dandy beach fire," said Philip, suggestively.

Where are ye now, lustrous counts, envied dandies of that bygone time?

He was elaborately dressed, and had the air of an ancient dandy.

And his blade cut a swath across the dandy's shining pumps.

They look like so many dandy housemaids got up for a fancy ball.

These letters describe how French dandies dress, eat, and kill time.

I guess you've wondered at my dandy clothes, and shiny finger nails.

And there is the Creole dandy, the small master of the revels.

He piqued himself upon being at the same time a dandy and a statesman.

"Easy there, my fine dandy," replied the rook, with a hoarse laugh.

"The young dandy is falling in love with my wife, confound him!"