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English
Etymology
From dandy + -ish.
Adjective
dandyish (comparative more dandyish, superlative most dandyish)
- Characteristic of or resembling the style of a dandy.
- Synonyms: dandiacal, foppish; see also Thesaurus:foppish
1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 83:The latter was a stranger to him but in the darkness, by the aid of the glowing cigarette tips, he could make out a pale dandyish face over which a smile was travelling slowly, a tall overcoated figure and a hard hat.
2002, Julian Rathbone, A Very English Agent, London: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 80:His clothes were sombre, clean but not immaculate, pressed, but yesterday perhaps not today. In short, neither slovenly nor dandyish.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty , 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:As he crossed the drawing room he acknowledged himself with a flattered smile in a mirror. He was wearing a wing collar, and something dandyish in him, some memory of the licence and discipline of being in a play, lifted his mood.
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