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Definition of dapperling in English: dapperlingnoun ˈdapəlɪŋ archaic A small, dapper man or boy. Example sentencesExamples - An intellectual dapperling of these times boasts chiefly of his irresistible perspicacity, his 'dwelling in the daylight of truth,' and so forth.
- He propped it against the legs of a chair, that the dapperling might view his own magnificence.
- The stranger, having wiped the pen, presented it to the dapperling, who more debonnairly breathed his vein.
- He was a strange little dapperling, scarcely five feet tall.
- She loves Anthony, a dapperling in person, with nothing to recommend him physically but a missy prettiness.
Synonyms fop, beau, man about town, bright young thing, glamour boy, rake
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