Thesaurus:dandy
THESAURUS | dandy |
English
Synonyms
- beau (dated)
- blade (dated)
- blood (obsolete)
- buck (UK, obsolete)
- carpet knight
- cockscomb (archaic)
- dandy
- dude (archaic)
- dudelet (archaic)
- exquisite (rare)
- fast man
- fine gentleman
- fop
- foretop (obsolete)
- fribble
- gallant
- go (obsolete)
- jack-a-dandy (archaic)
- Jemmy-Jessamy (obsolete)
- jetter (obsolete)
- macaroni (archaic)
- masher
- metrosexual
- peacock
- popinjay
- pretty boy (pejorative, slang)
- prig
- smart
- spark
- swell (dated)
- toff (obsolete)
Antonyms
- coquette
- flirt [WS]
- quaintrelle
- vamp [WS]
- —
- untidy person [WS]
Hyponyms
- dandyling (archaic, pejorative)
- dapperling
- fopling (archaic)
Hypernyms
- man [WS]
- snappy dresser
- trendy
Various
- blade
- bon vivant
- boulevardier
- Corinthian
- flaneur
- man about town
See also
- Thesaurus:foppish
- Thesaurus:idler
Further reading
- “854. fop” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “dandy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.