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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
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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