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noun

Dandy n. (pl. dandies)

One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.

(Naut.)

(a)

A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.

(b)

A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; called also jigger, and mizzen.

A dandy roller. See below.

Dandy brush, a yard whalebone brush.

Dandy fever. See Dengue.

Dandy line, a kind of fishing line to which are attached several crosspieces of whalebone which carry a hook at each end.

Dandy roller, a roller sieve used in machines for making paper, to press out water from the pulp, and set the paper.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dandy" Quotes from Famous Books

... prosaically and mount still higher—then to come face to face with a creature so elegant, so visibly "dressed," that no gambler in town could outshine him. By sheer good luck, to have been introduced to this dandy in one's capacity of teacher of the mixed primary that very morning, when he had been given permission by Mr. Garvan to make an announcement at the school concerning special privileges granted school-children at the "high-class minstrel performance" given at Lally's Opera House. ...

— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson

... daughters—moved too as with their heads in the clouds; notably "Stiffy," eldest of all, whom we supposed gorgeous, who affected us as sublime and unapproachable and to whom we thus applied the term in use among us before we had acquired for reference to such types the notion of the nuance, the dandy, the dude, the masher. (Divided I was, I recall, between the dread and the glory of being so greeted, "Well, Stiffy—!" as a penalty of the least attempt at personal adornment.) The higher intensity for our sense of the ...

— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James

... his cows an' his horses an' things struck with lightning, an' his boys an' his girls were all at a swell birthday spree, an' the house up an' fell down, an' smashed every bloomin' one o' them—oh, say! it's a dandy!" ...

— Treasure Valley • Marian Keith

... wife in the second place. So curious did this blindness seem in a man of jealous temper, that his greatest friends used to draw him out on the topic for the amusement of others who did not know of the mystery. M. du Hautoy was a finical dandy whose minute care of himself had degenerated into mincing affectation and childishness. He took an interest in his cough, his appetite, his digestion, his night's rest. Zephirine had succeeded in making a valetudinarian of her factotum; she coddled him and doctored him; she crammed ...

— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac

... being for the male invert I have come most in contact with them and have found that they form much the larger class. Among harvesters and seafaring tramps it is seldom you find a 'dandy' such as I was considered, and as such I was eagerly courted, and any suggestion of intimacy on my part quickly responded to. As regards the use of young boys for homosexual indulgence, it is not common as it is ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

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