dapperling
/ˈdapəlɪŋ
/noun archaic
A small, dapper man or boy.She loves Anthony, a dapperling in person, with nothing to recommend him physically but a missy prettiness....
- An intellectual dapperling of these times boasts chiefly of his irresistible perspicacity, his 'dwelling in the daylight of truth,' and so forth.
- The stranger, having wiped the pen, presented it to the dapperling, who more debonnairly breathed his vein.
- bring someone round (or around)
- bring someone/thing down
- bring someone/thing into line
- bring someone/thing to bay
- bring someone/thing to mind
- bring someone/thing to their/its knees
- bring someone to book
- bring someone to heel
- bring someone to justice
- bring someone to their (or come to one's) senses
- bring someone up
- bring something about
- bring something back
- bring something (down) about one's ears
- bring something forth
- bring something forward
- bring something home to
- bring something in
- bring something into question
- bring something off
- bring something on
- bring something out
- bring something to
- bring something to bear
- bring something to light