Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To linger or dangle about in an affected, ‘lardy-dardy’ way.
- noun A swell; a dandy; a fop. The word first appeared in or about the early sixties in the theaters, and later in London music-halls.
- Fashionable; dandified; ‘killing.’
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Examples
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‘Good afternoon!’ — in rather lardy-dardy, middle-class English.
The Captain's Doll 2003
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The Chaplain, who waited upon him as a Maid would on a lardy-dardy woman of Fashion, handed my Gentleman a very tall stick with a golden knob at the end on't, and with this, and a laced handkerchief and a long cravat, which he had likely bought at Mechlin, and a Snuff-box in the lean little Paw that held not the cane, he looked for all the world like one of my
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
bilby commented on the word lardy-dardy
lah-dee-dah?
October 20, 2010
madmouth commented on the word lardy-dardy
bingo
October 20, 2010