dapper

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Dutch

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[edit] Adjective

dapper (comparative more dapper, superlative most dapper)

Positive
dapper

Comparative
more dapper

Superlative
most dapper

  1. neat, trim
  2. stylishly dressed, neatly dressed
  3. spiffy

[edit] Quotations

(neatly dressed):

  • 1917: Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert. — P.G.Wodehouse, The Man With Two Left Feet, 1917.

(neat, trim):

  • 1892: This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris. — Henry Seton Merriman, The Slave Of The Lamp, 1892

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dapper (comparative: dapperder, superlative: dapperste)

  1. brave, courageous

[edit] Dutch

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[edit] Adjective

dapper, dappere (comparative dapperder, dapperdere; superlative dapperst, dapperste)

  1. brave, courageous