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• That dandy has nothing better to do than prowl around town all day in his pinstripe suit.From the entry prowl
• She always comes up with great ideas for handy dandy new tools.From the entry handy dandy
• She's our butter queen, our dandy Jersey, Mary Ann.From the entry jersey
• Flitting dandies listed at windows to look at dummies closely bunched boutiques with exclusive fonts.2016, Frank Morris, The Pearl in the Diamond World, Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry symmetrophile
• The dandy horse went out of fashion nearly as quickly as it came in.2015, Chris Boardman, The Biography of the Modern Bike: The Ultimate History of Bike Design, Hachette, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry dandy-horse
• Cherry pie baked inside a chocolate cake, for a dandy Black Forest pake.2014 July 1, Nancy Stohs, “Bake a pie in a cake to make a ‘pake,’ because why not?”, in The Brownsville Herald, volume 122, number 363…. From the entry pake
• Someone may have wanted to trim a local dandy down to size.2012, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image, page 296. From the entry trim down to size
• Well, we were probably never going to mistake Gordon Brown for a rococo dandy.1999 July 21, Jonathan Jones, “Grey and grimy alternative to frippery that bespeaks loyalty to welfare state Britain”, in The Guardian. From the entry frippery
• There's a drop yet, Gentle," Bark blandandered, holding up the dandy for the heel.1947, Robert Briffault, New Life of Mr. Martin, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 32. From the entry blandander
• Three examples of the dandy cart in which horses descended inclines at the rear of gravity-operated trains.1942 March, “The Dandy Cart”, in Railway Magazine, page 86, image caption. From the entry dandy cart
• There are some dandy short cuts up there, if you don't mind puddle jumping.1939, Thomas Fleming Day, The Rudder - Volume 55, page 29. From the entry puddle jump
• British users rechristened the baron's invention the hobby horse then the dandy horse, because draisines became very fashionable with Regency gentlemen.2015, Chris Boardman, The Biography of the Modern Bike: The Ultimate History of Bike Design, Hachette, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry hobby horse
• Within a few months the ‘slave Alexandre’ had been successfully transformed into what, across the Channel, was called a ‘blackamoor dandy’.2012, Jonathan Keates, “Mon Père, ce héros”, in Literary Review, section 402. From the entry American
• A shaded watermark is produced by a dandy roll located at or near the suction box on the Fourdrinier.2010, Rose Gonnella, Christopher J. Navetta, Comp It Up: A Studio Skills Foundation, page 2-9. From the entry dandy roll
• He has been referred to as the urban zip coon, dancing dandy, and, most notably, Sambo, the happy slave.2006, Ronald L. Jackson II, Scripting the Black Masculine Body: Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media, page 26. From the entry zip coon
• A raised symbol is placed on the dandy roll of the Fourdrinier machine and makes the paper thinner in that shape.2002, Jon Attwood, Graphic Products. From the entry dandy roll
• In England, they called it a dandy horse.1998 November 29, Eric Epstein, “A Passion for Old Bicycles Spun Into a Museum”, in New York Times, retrieved 31 May 2014. From the entry dandy-horse
• They were called walkalongs, dandy horses, hobby-horses, or Draisines.1972, George S. Fichter, Bicycling, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry walkalong
• He is the dandy or dude: the wealthy waster who makes a weak villain for so many American novels.1926, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Curse of the Golden Cross”, in The Incredulity of Father Brown. From the entry dude
• Now you've got her, foine and dandy."1919, Grace S. Richmond, The Brown Study. From the entry foine
• Such captivating beauty corresponds to our protagonist’s naive idealism, and the rose-colored glasses through which he views an upper-crust world of dandies and refined intellectuals.2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club. From the entry rose-colored glasses
• Behind the plaque a brass and jaunty Joyce re-juggles book, stick and cigarette, defiantly dandy, unparanoid at last beneath his canopy of ferns.1974, Samuel John Hazo, Quartered. From the entry unparanoid
• A dandy example is Fairborn, up until recent years a "Sundown Town" where community forces worked in concert to keep Negroes out.1968 August 25, Doug Walker, “Integration Moving on Peaceful Feet”, in Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, via Newspapers.com, page 4-C. From the entry sundown town
• Henri Duval is a swashbuckling adventure with an absurdism straight out of Douglas Fairbanks: Siegel makes his hero a dandy who draws swords on men who insult his clothes.2004, Gerard Jones, Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry absurdism
• I am also one of the greatest fryers of chicken in the country, and I toss up a dandy fruit salad—grapefruit, oranges, pineapple and bananas, with French dressing.1945 September 29, Jack Alexander, “The President’s New Lawyer”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 218, number 13, page 10, column 1. From the entry fryer
• When a philosopher condescends to regard commonplace man, he assumes much the attitude that a dandy might if brought, perforce, into contact with some one suspected of being pedicular.1923, Heinrich E. Buchholz, chapter 14, in Of What Use Are Common People? A Study in Democracy, Baltimore: Warwick & York, pages 196–197. From the entry pedicular
• Burd gripped it with unselfish warmth, assuring the tall, lanksome young man that he was fine and dandy, and as fit as a fiddle on Fourth of July.1912, George Washington Ogden, Home Place. From the entry lanksome
• The dandy must be celibate, cloistral; is, indeed, but a monk with a mirror for beads and breviary—an anchorite, mortifying his soul that his body may be perfect.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry anchorite
• The convict's new-found ability to purchase silk and self-fashion as a dandy marks his escape from impoverishment, filling his stomach and his 'flesh-bag' – the evocative flash word for shirt.2021, Sarah Comyn, Porscha Fermanis, Worlding the south. From the entry flesh-bag
• All the better that she was no dandy; all the likeabler that she spoke little; all the safer that she ruled the father an’ was a mistress in the house.1901 August 16, Shan F[adh] Bullock, “Bulldog”, in Alderley & Wilmslow Advertiser, and Guardian, and East and Mid Cheshire Gazette…. From the entry likeable

Meaning of dandy

1. noun A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.
2. noun Something excellent in its class.
3. noun A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.

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How do you use dandy in a sentence?

Dandy is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “That's all fine and dandy, but how much does it cost?”

What is a short sentence with dandy?

“Now you've got her, foine and dandy."”

What does dandy mean?

Dandy means a man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.