dandified

  • 81mincing — adjective no one dared to laugh at the young master s mincing walk Syn: affected, dainty, effeminate, pretentious, dandified, foppish; informal camp …

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  • 82dandy — n 1. fop, coxcomb, Sl. peacock, Beau Brummell, fancy Dan, popinjay; fashion plate, exquisite, clotheshorse, prettyboy; jack a dandy, blade, gay blade, Chiefly Brit. blood, buck; dude, silkstocking, spark, Sl. swell, Brit. Inf. toff; man about… …

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  • 83high-and-mighty — adj 1. haughty, arrogant, excessively proud, self important, presumptuous, fastuous, proud, vainglorious, overconfident, overweening; conceited, snobbish, Inf. stuck up, Inf. uppish, Inf. uppity, on one s high horse; pompous, egotistic, lofty,… …

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  • 84mincing — adj 1.(of gait, speech, behavior, etc.) dainty, overdainty, precious, sweet, effeminate, feminine, womanish, girlish, sissyish, sissy, pussyfooting, namby pamby, niminy piminy, Sl. cutesy; dandified, dandyish, foppish, coxcombic, coxcombical;… …

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  • 85ostentatious — adj 1. pretentious, affected, overwrought, overdone, extreme; artificial, surface, specious, doggy; high toned, high flown, grandiose, elaborate, spectacular, fancy; orotund, conspicuous, showy, flashy, flamboyant, glittering, theatrical, Sl.… …

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  • 86pretentious — adj 1. alleging, claiming, professing, purporting, avowing; pretending, feigning. 2. pompous, bombastic, inflated, vain, vainglorious, peacockish, show offish; boastful, bragging, flaunting, rodomontade; egotistical, self important, self… …

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  • 87fancy-pants — fan′cy pants adj. cvb sl. fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified …

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  • 88dandify — /ˈdændəfaɪ/ (say danduhfuy) verb (t) (dandified, dandifying) to make dandy like or foppish; dress or fit out like a dandy. –dandification /dændəfəˈkeɪʃən/ (say danduhfuh kayshuhn), noun …

  • 89ponce — /pɒns / (say pons) Colloquial –noun 1. → pimp (def. 1). 2. a dandy, often effeminate. –verb (i) (ponced, poncing) 3. to act as a pimp. –phrase 4. all ponced up, effeminately overdressed; dandified. 5. ponce about, to flounce; behave in a… …

  • 90poonce — /pʊns/ (say poons) noun Colloquial 1. (derogatory) a male homosexual. 2. a weak or dandified man. {variant of ponce} …