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dandy

[dan-dee] / ˈdæn di /


NOUN
man obsessed with his style and clothing
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I hate the Patriots, and I hate doing this, and maybe down deep I’m thinking, given my prediction record, if I pick them they’ll lose and wouldn’t that be dandy?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

Divided by competing urges to “join in and stand out,” the dandy exaggerates style to the point of satire and social impertinence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

The holiday’s corpulent, white-bearded dandy arrived even later, his schmaltzy persona skimmed from bony St. Nicholas between Reconstruction and 1931, when Coca-Cola debuted its iconic, brandy-flushed Santa Claus.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025

The dandy, it turns out, is a local teenage fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who just happened to be at a real crime scene.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

It was a dandy hiding place, and I proceeded to make myself comfortable.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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