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 Translation for 'dandy' from English to Slovak
ADJ   dandy | dandier | dandiest
NOUN   a dandy | dandies
SYNO beau | clotheshorse | dandy | ...
skvelý {adj}dandy [Am.] [coll.]
úžasný {adj}dandy [Am.] [coll.]
fasa {adj} [sl.]dandy [Am.] [coll.]
bezva {adj} [sl.]dandy [Am.] [coll.]
super {adj} [ľud.]dandy [Am.] [coll.]
supriš {adj} [sl.]dandy [Am.] [coll.]
príma {adj} [ľud.]dandy [Am.] [coll.]
betálny {adj} [sl.]dandy [Am.] [coll.]
bezvadný {adj} [sl.]dandy [Am.] [coll.]
bohovský {adj} [ľud.]dandy [Am.] [coll.]
ohromný {adj} [skvelý]dandy [Am.] [coll.]
parádny {adj} [ľud.] [skvelý]dandy [Am.] [coll.]
Nouns
dandy {m}dandy
elegán {m}dandy
fičúr {m} [han.]dandy
švihák {m} [ľud.]dandy
sekáč {m} [ľud.] [elegán, švihák]dandy
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Usage Examples English
  • The black soldier became another stock type during the Civil War and merged qualities of the slave and the dandy.
  • Mr. Laurence Calver - a dandy and Sir Waldo's other cousin.
  • And they said she'd be a dandy, when she reaches Harbour Grace.
  • The clothes-obsessed dandy first appeared in the 1790s, both in London and Paris.
  • He is soon surrounded by his enemies: the drunk who wants to continue the fight, the angry dandy, and the dandy's wife.

  • The horses were carried downhill in a special dandy wagon, usually attached to the end of the run of loaded wagons.
  • Cutflower: School professor. A dandy and a fop.
  • Shonibare also takes carefully posed photographs and videos recreating famous British paintings or stories from literature but with himself taking centre stage as an alternative, black British dandy – for example, "A Rake's Progress" by Hogarth, which Shonibare translates into "Diary of A Victorian Dandy" (1998), or his "Dorian Gray" (2001), named after Oscar Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray".
  • Known for his dandy aesthetic, Dickon has peroxide blonde hair and is often seen in a white, blue, or silver-grey three-piece suit, the silver-grey suit being a bequest from fellow London dandy Sebastian Horsley.
  • Meanwhile an absurd little prose poem tells us of the dandy's infatuation with his own legs.

  • Frances Webster did then take as her lover the Regency dandy Scrope Berdmore Davies.
  • A Dandy loom was a hand loom, that automatically ratchetted the take-up beam.
  • The family firm John Pilling and Sons Ltd, made hand, dandy and power looms from 1819.
  • "Space Dandy" is an anime television series produced by Bones.
  • Moers pointed to the ambiguous origins of the dandy, in a merger of French and English traditions; to the paradox in the dandy's highly structured pose of inaction; and to the role of the female dandy.

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