dapper — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Neat, trim.

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

2. Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   “It is too bad that monsieur has been troubled,” said Tarzan, turning to the newspaper man. “I bid monsieur good evening,” and he bowed the dapper young man out of the room, and closed the door in his face.

   Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.

3. Quick; little and active.

Sostantivo

1. A plimsoll.

   Uso

   • uso britannico
   • dialectal

   Sinonimi

   dap

Aggettivo

1. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

   Sinonimi

   dashingjauntynattyraffishrakishspiffysnappyspruce

   Esempi

   a dapper young man

   a jaunty red hat