Definition of Dashy

1. a. Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.

Definition of Dashy

1. Adjective. (colloquial dated) Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dashy

1. stylish [adj DASHIER, DASHIEST] - See also: stylish

Medical Definition of Dashy

1. Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. Origin: From Dash. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dashy

dashi
dashier
dashiest
dashiki
dashikis
dashing
dashing hopes
dashingly
dashingness
dashis
dashism
dashkovaite
dashpot
dashpots
dasht
dashy (current term)
dasing
dasn't
dast
dastard
dastard(a)
dastardies
dastardize
dastardized
dastardizes

Literary usage of Dashy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896) by John Stephen Farmer (1896)
"The High Pad's Frolic and The dashy, Splashy Little Stringer Leman Rede (1802-47) an author of numerous successful dramatic pieces, and a contributor to the ..."

2. The Game of Life and Death: Stories of the Sea by Lincoln Colcord (1914)
"dashy didn't like my clothes, and told me why. ... dashy, my boy, look out for squalls.' "The first I heard o' Billy Soule was along about two weeks before ..."

3. The Girlhood of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's Diaries by Victoria (1912)
"I called for poor dear little dashy who was in the rumble; Wood (our footman) took him down and I ran on with him in my arms calling Mamma to follow, ..."

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