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DRESSY (dressier, dressiest)
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, dressiest Dictionary entry overview: What does dressy mean?
• DRESSY (adjective)
The adjective DRESSY has 1 sense:
1. in fancy clothing
Familiarity information: DRESSY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In fancy clothing
Similar:
fancy (not plain; decorative or ornamented)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Derivation:
dress (clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion)
Context examples
A very good man, and very much the gentleman I am sure: but I should think, Miss Elliot, (looking with serious reflection), I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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