dashy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of dashy
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And I probable wuzn’t so dressy as Miss Sheba, ’tennyrate I hadn’t no crown or septer, a brown straw bunnet and umbrell meetin’ my wants better, but not nigh so dashy lookin’.
From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley
And Laura set the dashy little thing with its head on one side, and held it up coquettishly.
From Real Folks by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
Mrs. Jeremy," exclaimed the doctor; "what is there delightful, I want to know, in travelling about with an arrogant old tyrant, his blind daughter, upstart dashy wife, and her two fine-lady nieces?
From The Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins
It was a dashy barouche, drawn by a glossy-black span, and occupied by two ladies and a lapdog.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
In many colleges, when one is either dashy, or dressed more than ordinarily, he is said to cut a splurge.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
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