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fancy schmancy

fancy schmancy is the alternative form 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 schmancy

comparativefancy schmancier
superlativefancy schmanciest

Questions about fancy schmancy

What is fancy schmancy the alternative form of?
Fancy schmancy is the alternative form of fancy-schmancy.

Words near fancy schmancy in the dictionary

  1. fancy roller
  2. fancy rollers
  3. fancy sauce
  4. fancy schmancier
  5. fancy schmanciest
  6. fancy schmancy
  7. fancy seeing you here
  8. fancy shop
  9. fancy shops
  10. fancy stitch
  11. fancy stitches

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