Meaning of dandy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A boatman, a rower.
   India
2. A surname.
3. A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self
4. A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.
5. A Shaiva mendicant who carries a small rod.
   India
6. Clipping of Dandenong.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, singular
7. Something excellent in its class
8. Something excellent in its class.
9. An open sedan chair formed by suspending a rudimentary frame or strong cloth from a pole or set of poles.
   India
10. The Dandenong Ranges.
    in-plural, informal
11. A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl
12. A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
    British
13. A dandy roller
14. A dandy roller.
15. A small glass of whisky
16. A small glass of whisky.
    Ireland, UK, archaic, slang
17. A horse-drawn railway carriage used on some branch lines.
    historical

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Examples

“The gallant young Indian dandy at home on furlough — immense dandies these — chained and moustached — driving in tearing cabs, the pillars of the theatres, living at West End Hotels, — […]”

“No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one—I mean a downright bumpkin dandy–a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.”

““Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town.””

“Somebody quite as notorious as Brummell, but whose follies have been far more mischievous; whose eloquence is great, but certainly not always refined; and to whose health many a dandy of whisky has been tossed off.”

“Other notable instances of horse-drawn vehicles for passenger services were the dandies used on the two-mile branch to Inchture of the Perth-Dundee line of the Caledonian Railway […], and the 2½-mile branch of the North British Railway from Drumburgh to Port Carlisle. […] One of the Port Carlisle dandies was preserved at Waverley Station, Edinburgh, for several years, but is now in the Railway Museum at York.”

“Our Dandees (or boatmen) boyled their rice.”

“...the Dandis, distinguished by carrying a small dand or wand...”

“1870, Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming, Good Words, p. 135:”

“As the darkness closed in... I had to give up the attempt to use the dandy, and struggle on on foot.”

“Major Battye and Captain Urmston joined the rear and placed the wounded man in a dandy.”

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