dapper

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.4 Quotations 1.5 Anagrams 2 Afrikaans 2.1 Adjective 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Adjective

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[edit] Etymology

From Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: dæpə(r) SAMPA: /d{p@(r)/

  Rhymes: -æpə(r)

[edit] Adjective

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

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: adeppr
• rapped

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[edit] Afrikaans

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dapper (comparative: dapperder, superlative: dapperste)

1. brave, courageous

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[edit] Dutch

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[edit] Adjective

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

1. brave, courageous