Thesaurus:dandy
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance; a fashionable man
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- barbermonger (obsolete)
- beau (dated)
- blade (dated)
- blood (obsolete)
- buck (UK, obsolete)
- carpet knight
- cockscomb (archaic)
- dandy
- dike (US dialect, obsolete)
- dood
- dude (archaic)
- dudelet (archaic)
- exquisite (rare)
- fashionable [⇒ thesaurus]
- fast man
- fine gentleman
- fop
- foretop (obsolete)
- fribble
- gallant
- go (UK, obsolete)
- jack-a-dandy (archaic)
- Jemmy-Jessamy (obsolete)
- jetter (obsolete)
- macaroni (archaic)
- masher
- metrosexual
- mignon (rare, obsolete)
- petit maître (archaic)
- popinjay
- pretty boy (pejorative, slang)
- prig
- puss-gentleman (obsolete)
- smart
- spark
- spiff (archaic)
- swell (dated)
- tippy (obsolete, slang)
- toff (obsolete)
Antonyms
[edit]- puritan
- untidy person [⇒ thesaurus]
Hyponyms
[edit]- dandyling (archaic, pejorative)
- dapperling
- fopling (archaic)
- peacock
- turkeycock
Coordinate terms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]- effeminate man [⇒ thesaurus]
- fashionable person [⇒ thesaurus]
- man [⇒ thesaurus]
Various
[edit]- beautiful man [⇒ thesaurus]
- blade
- flirt [⇒ thesaurus]
- sensualist [⇒ thesaurus]
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “854. fop” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “dandy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.