dapper

English - Turkish

Definition of dapper in English Turkish dictionary

{s} şık

O her ucundan özenle kıvrılmış bir bıyığı olan şık bir adamdı. - He was a dapper man with a mustache that curled neatly at each tip.

şık ve hareketli

{s} düzgün giyimli

{s} iki dirhem bir çekirdek

{s} çevik

{s} atak

zarif

tetik

Related Terms

spiffy

güzel

spiffy

iki dirhem bir çekirdek

dapperer

daha şık

spiffy

{s} çok güzel

spiffy

{s} şık

spiffy

{s} mükemmel

English - English

Definition of dapper in English English dictionary

stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy

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

neat, trim

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.

{a} little and active, lively, neat, tight

{s} lively; handsome, spruced-up

spiffy

marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat

stylishly dressed, neatly dressed

marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"

A man who is dapper has a very neat and clean appearance, and is often also small and thin. a dapper little man. a man who is dapper is nicely dressed, has a neat appearance, and is usually small or thin

Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively

Related Terms

dapper Dan

{i} (British Slang) well-dressed man

dapperly

handsomely, beautifully

Hyphenation

dap·per

Turkish pronunciation

däpır

Synonyms

bandbox, brisk, chic, chichi, classy, clean, dainty, dashing, doggy, dressed to kill, dressed to nines, jaunty, natty, nice, nifty

Antonyms

dirty, dishevelled, ruffled, rumpled, scruffy, shabby, sloppy, tousled, ungroomed, wrinkled

Pronunciation

/ˈdapər/ /ˈdæpɜr/

Etymology

[ 'da-p&r ] (adjective.) 15th century. Middle English dapper from Middle Dutch dapper "stalwart, nimble" from Old Dutch *dapar from Proto-Germanic *dapraz (“heavy, sad”) from Proto-Indo-European *dheb- (“thick, big, heavy”). Akin to Old High German taphar "heavy, weighty" (German tapfer "resolute, courageous"), Old Norse dapr "saddened, dreary", Middle Low German dapper "weighty, earnest, diligent".