dandyish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of or resembling the style of a dandy.
Example Sentences
- "The latter was a stranger to him but in the darkness, by the aid of the glowing cigarette tips, he could make out a pale dandyish face over which a smile was travelling slowly, a tall overcoated figure and a hard hat."
- "His clothes were sombre, clean but not immaculate, pressed, but yesterday perhaps not today. In short, neither slovenly nor dandyish."
- "As he crossed the drawing room he acknowledged himself with a flattered smile in a mirror. He was wearing a wing collar, and something dandyish in him, some memory of the licence and discipline of being in a play, lifted his mood."
Etymology
Etymology tree English dandy Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English dandyish From dandy + -ish.
Inflected Forms
more dandyish (comparative)
most dandyish (superlative)