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DANDIFY (dandified)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dandify mean?
• DANDIFY (verb)
The verb DANDIFY has 1 sense:
1. dress like a dandy
Familiarity information: DANDIFY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dress like a dandy
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "dandify" is one way to...):
dress; get dressed (put on clothes)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
dandy (a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance)
Context examples
Being only 'a glorious human boy', of course he frolicked and flirted, grew dandified, aquatic, sentimental, or gymnastic, as college fashions ordained, hazed and was hazed, talked slang, and more than once came perilously near suspension and expulsion.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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