dandizette
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The accompanying cut is from a rather broadly caricatured print of a dandizette of the year 1819."
- "A witch, be it understood, Funny and fair and good, Tiny and pretty and jolly; A love, a sweet, a prize, a pet, An airy, fairy dandizette, A maid of honor to Cupid god, A fairy girl of the period, A wee little lady of delicate breeding, Foreign to horror and melancholy, and guiltless of any uncanny proceeding."
- "Men are, perhaps, slower in following new modes than women, and more averse to making themselves ridiculous ; but a dandy is an inferior specimen of human nature to a dandizette — as some old song calls the female of the species."
- "His pantomimic colloquies with the other sex, too, were inimitable - his mincing affectation, when addressing a dandizette; his broad bold style, when making love to a fisherwoman - were all true to Nature."
Etymology
From dandy + -ette.