fancy-schmancy

Adjective

fancy-schmancy (comparative fancy-schmancier or fancier-schmancier, superlative fancy-schmanciest or fanciest-schmanciest)

1. Synonym of schmancy.
   • The keys you use to move around are all grouped together. If you have the fancy-schmanciest kind of keyboard, they’re between the alphabet keys and the number keypad, with the arrow keys arranged in an upside-down T at the bottom and Insert, Delete, Home, End, PageUp, and PageDown, lumped together...1993, Christian Crumlish, “Using the Arrow Keys”, in Murphy’s Laws of WordPerfect 6 for DOS (The Murphy’s Laws Computer Book Series), Alameda, Calif.: SYBEX, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Getting Around Your...
   • First of all, the garden party usually takes place on a Saturday, so you can make a fashion statement in your fancy-schmanciest clothes and stun the opposite sex by emerging like the “After” instead of the “Before” part of a “Dump that Frumpy Look” makeover.2003, Grace Dent, “Banging the Drum of Love”, in It’s a Girl Thing (LBD; 1), 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, pages 29–30

   Synonyms:

   schmancy