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Definition of Dapper
1. Adjective. Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners. "A jaunty red hat"
Similar to: Fashionable, Stylish
Derivative terms: Dapperness, Jauntiness, Nattiness, Rakishness, Spruceness
Definition of Dapper
1. a. Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.
Definition of Dapper
1. Adjective. neat, trim ¹
2. Adjective. stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dapper
1. looking neat and trim [adj -PERER, -PEREST] : DAPPERLY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dapper
Literary usage of Dapper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the Cases Relating to Maritime Law: Decided by the Court of by John Crockford, Great Britain High Court of Admiralty (1868)
"For the dapper the wind was stated as WSW, and the weather as dark but fine ...
The case for the dapper was that, the tide being the last quarter ebb, ..."
2. The British Essayists edited by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"The habit of a dapper, when he is at home, is a light broad cloth, ... and a
resolution to overtop him in his way, are the distinguishing marks of a dapper. ..."
3. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"DIVE-dapper. A email bird, called also a dab-chick, ... If dive-dapper was really
the original word, it WHE equivalent to small diver. ..."
4. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"CHAPTER VIII MINERAL WATERS AND METABOLISM BY CARL VON NOORDEN AND C. dapper.
TRANSLATED BY JA NIXON, BA, MB, MRCP ALTHOUGH many of the points in this ..."
5. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley (1780)
"Ay, Ay, fir, that Gull f as well as I know my yeoman. And you know his father
too, Sir Davy dapper ? Sir Davy dapper. ,- Serjeant ..."
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