Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To dress as or cause to resemble a dandy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make or form like a dandy; give the character or style of a dandy to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To dress as, or to adopt the style of, a
dandy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dress like a dandy
Etymologies
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dandy + -ify
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Examples
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Was she going to the races or a match, or a kettle-drum, that she must dandify herself with particular shades of color?
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You wouldn't think anyone could dandify the mixing of that drink, but Oldan has a trick where he wets his palm and presses the soda can to his skin until it forms a seal.
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