Definitions

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  • adjective comparative form of dandy: more dandy

Etymologies

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dand(y) +‎ -ier

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Examples

  • Candy is dandy, but candy-flavored cocktails are even dandier.

    Robert Rosenthal: Don't Turn Drinking Into a Responsibility 2009

  • And 70 percent, like what Apple and Amazon are now offering, is apparently starting to sound dandier to Google.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

  • As much as this blow-by-blow battlemodo shows you all the problems we encountered, the big picture is that really, mobile web is pretty dandy right now, and getting dandier.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2008

  • As much as this blow-by-blow battlemodo shows you all the problems we encountered, the big picture is that really, mobile web is pretty dandy right now, and getting dandier.

    Gizmodo 2008

  • See him now, his face lit up with delight at the parade advancing on every side, of cart and carriage, delivery truck and spacious brougham, of ladies in their colorful crinoline and dandies dandier than the foppish fop astride boneshaker bicycles weaving between the vendors’ carts as expertly as rodeo barrel racers.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • See him now, his face lit up with delight at the parade advancing on every side, of cart and carriage, delivery truck and spacious brougham, of ladies in their colorful crinoline and dandies dandier than the foppish fop astride boneshaker bicycles weaving between the vendors’ carts as expertly as rodeo barrel racers.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • See him now, his face lit up with delight at the parade advancing on every side, of cart and carriage, delivery truck and spacious brougham, of ladies in their colorful crinoline and dandies dandier than the foppish fop astride boneshaker bicycles weaving between the vendors’ carts as expertly as rodeo barrel racers.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • I never knew two dandier people than you and your brother, and I like the work, but --! "

    Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • "There's not a dandier, better pal anywhere, than what Chum's been to me.

    His Dog Albert Payson Terhune 1907

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