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单词 dapper
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Definition of dapper in English:

dapper

adjective ˈdapəˈdæpər
  • (of a man) neat and trim in dress and appearance.

    he looked very dapper in a dark silk suit
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The small man, the dapper man with grey suit, grey tie and clean white shirt put out a hand to support me.
    • A dapper man in contrasting winter shades, beige scarf at a jaunty angle, he marches across the nosherie floor to greet me.
    • If I recall correctly, he was wearing a blazer and appeared a very dapper 73-year-old.
    • He is dapper in blazer, cane, sharp hat and regimental tie, which he wears with a tie clip.
    • He is a small, dapper man (suit, tie, shiny shoes), and I have a feeling he is rather vain.
    • Look out for the dapper gent in a bowler hat tinkling the ivories in an East End boozer.
    • A dapper American in white jacket and smart shirt and tie greeted me.
    • He sits on a folded towel grumbling and mumbling away and, in spite of it all, still looks neat and dapper most of the time.
    • In appearance he is slim and dapper, a man of medium height invariably dressed in expensive American suits that nevertheless contrive to look cheap.
    • He grew into a dapper and debonair-seeming man who modelled himself on the film star Ronald Coleman.
    • To my left was a rather dapper man, distinguished in dress and demeanor.
    • A short while later it was opened again and a very dapper gentleman in English tweed opened it up to me.
    • Physically, I'd expected a dapper man with a fine line in suits and irony.
    • He is thoroughly dapper: all straw boater and braces and a good line in patter.
    • A long red ostrich plume sprouted back from the hat giving him a dapper appearance that befit the captain of a ship.
    • The brides reflect the styles of the day, with the stiff starched elegance of the grooms' dapper morning suits also forming a real contrast.
    • He was a dapper guy, and he always had a little feather in his hat.
    • If anyone can get you looking spruce and dapper, Maxine told me, it's Carol.
    • The racegoers go all out when it comes to the style stakes with the boys in their dapper pinstripes and the girls with their elegant head pieces.
    • At the opposite end a dapper gentleman tips his hat and bows to this smiling little lady.
    Synonyms
    smart, spruce, trim, debonair, neat, tidy, neat and tidy, crisp, well dressed, besuited, well groomed, well turned out, smartly dressed, elegant, chic, dashing
    French soigné
    informal snazzy, snappy, natty, sharp, nifty
    North American informal sassy, spiffy, fly, kicky
    dated as if one had just stepped out of a bandbox
    British informal, dated swagger
    archaic trig

Derivatives

  • dapperly

  • adverb
    • Abrams and his group wanted to attract membership from the sportsmen and businessmen of Pittsburgh, men who were always dapperly dressed.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Always dapperly dressed in dress shirts and ties, Interpol played new tracks from Antics and hits from Turn On The Bright Lights.
      • Ever wonder what lurks in the hearts and minds of those stoic, unflappable, dapperly uniformed men?
      • Robert Fridman, French and therefore dapperly dressed as if for cocktails in St. Tropez, gazed past the 19th-century wooden row houses on Sylvan Terrace in Harlem and reflected on the American Condition.
      • He loses weight, dresses dapperly, and begins to frequent trendy clubs in Manhattan.
  • dapperness

  • noun
    • However Theodore acknowledges that it might be the case that it's not hat-wearing that makes a man civil, dapper and courteous; it could be civility, dapperness and courtesy that make a man wear a hat.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Here a pearl-gray homburg is a signifier of dapperness, there a totem of an affair.
      • Connery is resplendent in his timeless dapperness throughout the adventure, so the game itself is looking like something of a 60s style piece from an aesthetic point of view.
      • One account of Pierre Vigny makes reference to his dapperness and specifically mentions his silk britches
      • It's George Clooney's powers of suave dapperness that have made him a great big movie star.

Origin

Late Middle English: probably from a Middle Low German or Middle Dutch word meaning 'strong, stout'.

Rhymes

clapper, flapper, grappa, kappa, knapper, mapper, nappa, napper, rapper, sapper, scrapper, snapper, strapper, tapper, trapper, wrapper, yapper, Zappa
 
 

Definition of dapper in US English:

dapper

adjectiveˈdapərˈdæpər
  • (typically of a man) neat and trim in dress, appearance, or bearing.

    he looked very dapper in a dark silk suit
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In appearance he is slim and dapper, a man of medium height invariably dressed in expensive American suits that nevertheless contrive to look cheap.
    • Look out for the dapper gent in a bowler hat tinkling the ivories in an East End boozer.
    • He is thoroughly dapper: all straw boater and braces and a good line in patter.
    • At the opposite end a dapper gentleman tips his hat and bows to this smiling little lady.
    • The brides reflect the styles of the day, with the stiff starched elegance of the grooms' dapper morning suits also forming a real contrast.
    • He grew into a dapper and debonair-seeming man who modelled himself on the film star Ronald Coleman.
    • He is a small, dapper man (suit, tie, shiny shoes), and I have a feeling he is rather vain.
    • A dapper man in contrasting winter shades, beige scarf at a jaunty angle, he marches across the nosherie floor to greet me.
    • If anyone can get you looking spruce and dapper, Maxine told me, it's Carol.
    • If I recall correctly, he was wearing a blazer and appeared a very dapper 73-year-old.
    • A long red ostrich plume sprouted back from the hat giving him a dapper appearance that befit the captain of a ship.
    • A short while later it was opened again and a very dapper gentleman in English tweed opened it up to me.
    • A dapper American in white jacket and smart shirt and tie greeted me.
    • To my left was a rather dapper man, distinguished in dress and demeanor.
    • The racegoers go all out when it comes to the style stakes with the boys in their dapper pinstripes and the girls with their elegant head pieces.
    • He was a dapper guy, and he always had a little feather in his hat.
    • Physically, I'd expected a dapper man with a fine line in suits and irony.
    • The small man, the dapper man with grey suit, grey tie and clean white shirt put out a hand to support me.
    • He is dapper in blazer, cane, sharp hat and regimental tie, which he wears with a tie clip.
    • He sits on a folded towel grumbling and mumbling away and, in spite of it all, still looks neat and dapper most of the time.
    Synonyms
    smart, spruce, trim, debonair, neat, tidy, neat and tidy, crisp, well dressed, besuited, well groomed, well turned out, smartly dressed, elegant, chic, dashing

Origin

Late Middle English: probably from a Middle Low German or Middle Dutch word meaning ‘strong, stout’.

 
 
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