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单词 dandies
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dandies in British English

plural noun
dandy1 (sense 1)
 

dandy in British English 1

(ˈdændɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -dies
1. 
a man greatly concerned with smartness of dress; beau
2. 
a yawl or ketch
adjectiveWord forms: -dier or -diest
3.  informal
very good or fine
Derived forms
dandily (ˈdandily)
adverb
dandyish (ˈdandyish)
adjective
dandyism (ˈdandyism)
noun
Word origin
C18: perhaps short for jack-a-dandy

Examples of 'dandies' in a sentence
dandies

Gone were the dandies and boulevardiers of the 1970s and 1980s.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Fellow dandies would watch him dress and discuss the correct knotting of a cravat.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The group he headed were dandies and poseurs.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Designer dandies strutted down the catwalk at many of the recent men's shows.
Globe and Mail (2003)
For the dandies among you: a cravat!
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
That's when we started to produce youth tribes like mods, dandies and, later, punks.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
His sons are feckless dandies, incapable of working for a living.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
Labourers wore flat caps, financiers chose bowler hats, while gangsters and dandies rocked fedoras.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
What's the point of looking like dandies and dressing up when the music has got nothing to say?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It has been the uniform of both the anti-establishment and the landed gentry, 18th-century dandies and 1970s roadies.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)

All related terms of 'dandies'

dandier
a man greatly concerned with smartness of dress ; beau
dandiest
a man greatly concerned with smartness of dress ; beau
dandy
A dandy is a man who thinks a great deal about his appearance and always dresses in smart clothes .
dengue
an acute viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes , characterized by headache , fever , pains in the joints , and skin rash
dengue fever
an acute viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes , characterized by headache , fever , pains in the joints , and skin rash
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