Thesaurus:dandy
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance; a fashionable man[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- beau (dated)
- blade (dated)
- blood (obsolete)
- buck (UK, obsolete)
- carpet knight
- cockscomb (archaic)
- dandy
- dude (archaic)
- dudelet (archaic)
- exquisite (rare)
- fashionable [⇒ thesaurus]
- fast man
- fine gentleman
- fop
- foretop (obsolete)
- fribble
- gallant
- go (obsolete)
- jack-a-dandy (archaic)
- Jemmy-Jessamy (obsolete)
- jetter (obsolete)
- macaroni (archaic)
- masher
- metrosexual
- peacock
- popinjay
- pretty boy (pejorative, slang)
- prig
- smart
- spark
- swell (dated)
- toff (obsolete)
Antonyms[edit]
- coquette
- flirt [⇒ thesaurus]
- quaintrelle (archaic, rare)
- vamp [⇒ thesaurus]
- —
- untidy person [⇒ thesaurus]
Hyponyms[edit]
- dandyling (archaic, pejorative)
- dapperling
- fopling (archaic)
Hypernyms[edit]
Various[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “854. fop” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “dandy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.