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fancy-shmancy

fancy-shmancy is the alternative spelling of fancy-schmancy.

Meaning of 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...
    Synonyms:
    schmancy

Forms of fancy-shmancy

comparativefancy-shmancier
superlativefancy-shmanciest

Questions about fancy-shmancy

What is fancy-shmancy the alternative spelling of?
Fancy-shmancy is the alternative spelling of fancy-schmancy.

Words near fancy-shmancy in the dictionary

  1. fancy-schmancier
  2. fancy-schmanciest
  3. fancy-schmancy
  4. fancy-shmancier
  5. fancy-shmanciest
  6. fancy-shmancy
  7. fancy-sick
  8. fancying
  9. fancying one's chances
  10. fancying up
  11. fancyings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fancy-shmancy (page history and authors); fancy-schmancy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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