dandyish
adjEtymology From dandy + -ish.
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Characteristic of or resembling the style of a dandy.
- The latter was a stranger to him but in the darkness, by the aid of the glowing cigarette tips, he could make out a pale dandyish face over which a smile was travelling slowly, a tall overcoated figure and a hard hat.1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 83:
- His clothes were sombre, clean but not immaculate, pressed, but yesterday perhaps not today. In short, neither slovenly nor dandyish.2002, Julian Rathbone, A Very English Agent, London: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 80:
1 more example
- As he crossed the drawing room he acknowledged himself with a flattered smile in a mirror. He was wearing a wing collar, and something dandyish in him, some memory of the licence and discipline of being in a play, lifted his mood.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- dandyishly, dandyishness