dandyess

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dandyess

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From dandy + -ess.

noun dandyesses

  1. obsolete A female dandy. Here should the laced, straitened and waisted dandy or dandyess, whose beau-ideal of figure rests within the narrow span of slimness, and to whom any other view of the body is out of taste, out of conception, impossible -- here should they learn, while studying the flow and superfluity of a more pol

    Similar: dandizette, quaintrelle, dandyess, dudelet · Opposite: barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dike, dood, dude, dudelet

Opposite: dowd, frump, hijabi, matron, priss, prisspot, prude, untidy person

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@misc{dandyess_2026,
  title = {dandyess},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dandyess},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}