Usually means: Elegant, fashionable man; refined appearance.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word dandy:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. dandy: Merriam-Webster
  2. dandy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dandy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dandy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dandy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dandy, dandy: Wordnik
  7. dandy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dandy, dandy: Wiktionary
  9. dandy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dandy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dandy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dandy, dandy: Dictionary.com
  13. dandy (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dandy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dandy (computer game), Dandy (disambiguation), Dandy (mascot), Dandy (nickname), Dandy (song), Dandy (video game), Dandy, The Dandy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dandy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dandy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dandy: Rhymezone
  19. Dandy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dandy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Dandy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. dandy: FreeDictionary.org
  23. dandy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dandy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. dandy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dandy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dandy (fashion), dandy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. The Dandy, dandy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DANDY: Acronym Finder
  2. dandy: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dandy, dandy, dandy, dandy, dandy, dandy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Dandy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dandier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.
noun:  Something excellent in its class.
noun:  (British, nautical) A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
noun:  A dandy roller.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, slang, archaic) A small glass of whisky.
adjective:  Like a dandy, foppish.
adjective:  Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
adjective:  Excellent; first-rate.
noun:  (India) A boatman, a rower.
noun:  (India) A Shaiva mendicant who carries a small rod.
noun:  (India) An open sedan chair formed by suspending a rudimentary frame or strong cloth from a pole or set of poles.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (Victoria, informal, in the plural) The Dandenong Ranges.
noun:  (Victoria, informal, in the singular) Clipping of Dandenong. [A town in Victoria, Australia]

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