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jim-dandy
[ jim-dan-dee ]
adjective
- of superior quality; excellent:
a jim-dandy sports car.
noun
, plural jim-dan·dies.
- something of superior quality or that is an excellent example of its kind:
The new infirmary is a real jim-dandy.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jim-dandy1
1875–80; special use of Jim (proper name) + dandy ( def )
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Example Sentences
Well, it's a regular Jim-dandy cracker-jack—some swell clump, eh?
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You can see he's a Jim dandy—and him to be wasting time on Peggy—it's sickening!
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We had such a jim-dandy barn dance together at the Duffys, I thought we might try it again to-night.
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There she is, and a jim-dandy of a track, too, plain as the hoof marks of a cayuse around a snubbing post!
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Which meant that everything was jim-dandy as long as the wiring diagrams were labeled in the Cyrillic alphabet.
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