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The answer DANDY has 105 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of dandy in various dictionaries:
noun - a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
noun - a sailing vessel with two masts
adj - very good
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| Fine's partner |
| Hunky-dory |
| Swell |
| Fine partner |
| Fine accompaniment? |
| Fine and ___ |
| Fine companion? |
| Splendiferous |
| Just swell |
| Foppish fellow |
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| Being the opposite of one of these would make Yankee Doodle a ragamuffin |
| The title of the 1905 artwork seen here is this type of fop, a word also found after "fine and" |
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| a man unduly concerned with looking stylish and fashionable. |
| a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance |
| very good |
| a man, especially in the past, who dressed in expensive, fashionable clothes and was very interested in his own appearance: |
| very good. This is often said as a joke when really something is not good or you are not happy about it : |
| very good: |
| A man unduly concerned with looking stylish and fashionable. |
| An excellent thing of its kind. |
| Excellent. |
| Relating to or characteristic of a dandy. |
| Dandy description |
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A dandy, historically, is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self. A dandy could be a self-made man who strove to imitate an aristocratic lifestyle despite coming from a middle-class background, especially in late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain. * Previous manifestations of the petit-maître (French for small master) and the Muscadin have been noted by John C. Prevost, but the modern practice of dandyism first appeared in the revolutionary 1790s, both in London and in Paris. The dandy cultivated cynical reserve, yet to such extremes that novelist George Meredith, himself no dandy, once defined cynicism as "intellectual dandyism". Some took a more benign view; Thomas Carlyle wrote in Sartor Resartus that a dandy was no more than "a clothes-wearing man". Honoré de Balzac introduced the perfectly worldly and unmoved Henri de Marsay in La fille aux yeux d'or (18 |