dandynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdæn.di/us/ˈdæn.di/a man, especially in the past, who dressed in expensive, fashionable clothes and was very interested in his own appearance:
an upper-class dandy
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Kinds of men
- a bit of rough idiom
- a man's man idiom
- adult
- alpha male
- beta male
- gaffer
- gay
- geezer
- gent
- gentleman
- ladies' man
- mac
- male chauvinist
- MCP
- medallion man
- sister under the skin idiom
- spiv
- sugar daddy
- suit
- suitor
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dandyadjective
uk/ˈdæn.di/us/ˈdæn.di/also jim-dandy US old-fashioned or humorousvery good. This is often said as a joke when really something is not good or you are not happy about it :
Well, that's just dandy if you happen to have half a million dollars to spare.
I'm tired of pretending life is just dandy when it's not.
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Informal words for good
- A-OK
- ace
- amazeballs
- apple pie
- awesomesauce
- badass
- champion
- juicy
- killer
- knock
- knock spots off sth idiom
- magic
- mega
- rule
- serious
- some
- splendiferous
- steal the show/scene idiom
- stupendous
- suck
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