dandee

Noun

dandy (plural dandies)

1. A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.
   • 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, — […]1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 60, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
2. Something excellent in its class.
3. (UK) A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
4. A dandy roller.
5. (Ireland, UK, archaic, slang) A small glass of whisky.
   • Somebody quite as notorious as Brummell, but whose follies have been far more mischievous; whose eloquence is great, but certainly not always refined; and to whose health many a dandy of whisky has been tossed off.1844, William Jesse, The life of George Brummell, page 57
6. (historical) A horse-drawn railway carriage used on some branch lines.
   • Other notable instances of horse-drawn vehicles for passenger services were the dandies used on the two-mile branch to Inchture of the Perth-Dundee line of the Caledonian Railway […], and the 2½-mile branch of the North British Railway from Drumburgh to Port Carlisle. […] One of the Port Carlisle...1958 February, “Notes and News: The Fintona Tram”, in Railway Magazine, pages 139-140

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