dandy
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- noun
- /ˈdændi/
- Archaic
:
embarcación de dos mástiles
- He's asked at the stores for colored chalk and the Dandy.
Examples
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Last night, as of ten o'clock, everything was jim-dandy.
Fiction book (1995) -
[Dandy Warhols: "Bohemian Like You"]
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As for the Dandy itself, who knows?
Blog text (5) -
I'm a dandy Pandy.
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The Dandy Fancy Pants Democrats profit from the below-the-radar illegal underclass as much as the Republican meat processing exec.
Blog text (5) -
Comicos Comics, once a monthly, appeared as a special issue in January 1991, printed on recycled paper, while El mune The Dandy, previously a weekly, was also infrequent.
Academic text (1995) -
From her letters home to her mother during almost the only time we were ever separated, she compiled a book, published anonymously in London in a luxurious big green edition with a picture of five men carrying her in a dandy-chair embossed and gilded on the cover.
Fiction book (1993) -
The sailors expertly guided the dandy through the narrow channel, taking advantage of its two masts to harness the wind.
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During the regatta, we admired the old dandy as it gracefully moved across the water, with its small mizzen mast at the back.
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The captain explained that a dandy is a unique type of vessel designed for efficient sailing with its two distinct masts.
Synonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A tropical disease spread by mosquitoes that causes fever, rash, and joint pain
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dandy as a small two-masted boat comes from old sailor language and the exact origin is not sure, so a helpful way to remember it is to think of a dandy as a 'neat, handy' coastal craft. So in ships language a dandy is a small, easy-to-handle vessel.