dandy是什么意思（dandy的用法）

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一、dandy是什么意思

1、dandy 好打扮的男人

2、词源不详，可能来自Andrew的昵称，用来指好打扮的男人。比较gussy.

二、dandy的用法

1、dandy

2、dandy: [18] The first record of the word dandy comes in Scottish border ballads of the late 18th century, but by the early 19th century it had become a buzz term in fashionable London society. It is generally explained as being an abbreviation of jack-a-dandy ‘affected man’, a word first recorded in the 17th century which apparently incorporates Dandy, a colloquial Scottish abbreviation of the name Andrew. The word’s adjectival use started in the 19th century in close semantic relationship to the noun – ‘affectedly trim or neat’ – but American English has rehabilitated it to ‘excellent’ in the 20th century.=> andrew

3、dandy (n.)

4、c. 1780, of uncertain origin; it first appeared in a Scottish border ballad:I've heard my granny crackO' sixty twa years backWhen there were sic a stock of Dandies Oetc. In that region, Dandy is diminutive of Andrew (as it was in Middle English generally). The word was in vogue in London c. 1813-1819. His female counterpart was a dandizette (1821) with French-type ending. The adjective dandy first recorded 1792; very popular c. 1880-1900. Related: Dandified; dandify.

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