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ˈjim-ˈdandy, n. and a. U.S. colloq.
[Cf. dandy n.1 (and a.).]
A. n. An excellent person or thing.
B. adj. Remarkably fine, outstanding.
1887Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 12 Jan. 2/1 Dear Sir: Though a stranger to you (yet a Democrat), let me say you are a ‘Jim Dandy’. 1888Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 14 Feb. (Farmer), George C. Ball came upon the floor yesterday arrayed in a jim-dandy suit of clothes. 1902O. Wister Virginian xxvii. 346 He must have been a jim-dandy of a boy. 1904W. N. Harben Georgians ix. 87 Right thar I baked pies—open-top jim dandies, too. 1912Collier's 21 Dec. 23/2 Prince Albert rolls up the jim dandiest cigarette. 1919H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill iv. 119, I bet you made a jim-dandy good report. 1941J. Stuart Men of Mountains 154 He said the blue-tick hound was a jim-dandy possum dog. 1953New Yorker 7 Feb. 92/2 When one suffers from headaches,..Anacin is the jim-dandy remedy. 1963Spectator 12 July 45 The new GPO tower building is a jim-dandy, it excites and pleases me. 1972B. Garfield Line of Succession (1974) ii. 128 Your voting record on foreign affairs was fine, jim-dandy. |