Word Meanings - DANDYLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.

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• DANDY
  dandiner to waddle, to play the fool; prob. allied to E. dandle. 1. One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb. A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set. A small sail carried at or near the
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• INSIGNIFICANT
  1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and
• INSIGNIFICANTLY
  without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• DANDYLING
  A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• DANDYISE; DANDYIZE
  To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.
• CONTEMPTIBLE
  1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke. 2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. 3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.
• DANDY-COCK; DANDY-HEN
  A bantam fowl.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• DANDYISH
  Like a dandy.
• DANDYISM
  The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness. Byron.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• HANDY-DANDY
  A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
• JACK-A-DANDY
  A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.
• BELITTLE
  To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.