Dandizette

Quick meaning: Dandizette is a noun meaning (archaic) A female dandy.

Meaning

(archaic) A female dandy.

Example Sentences

The accompanying cut is from a rather broadly caricatured print of a dandizette of the year 1819.

His pantomimic colloquies with the other sex, too, were inimitable - his mincing affectation, when addressing a dandizette; his broad bold style, when making love to a fisherwoman - were all true to Nature.

Men are, perhaps, slower in following new modes than women, and more averse to making themselves ridiculous ; but a dandy is an inferior specimen of human nature to a dandizette — as some old song calls the female of the species.

A witch, be it understood, Funny and fair and good, Tiny and pretty and jolly; A love, a sweet, a prize, a pet, An airy, fairy dandizette, A maid of honor to Cupid god, A fairy girl of the period, A wee little lady of delicate breeding, Foreign to horror and melancholy, and guiltless of any uncanny proceeding.

Word Forms

• dandizettes

Synonyms for dandizette

Depending on context, synonyms include dandyess, quaintrelle, dudelet.

Antonyms for dandizette

Common opposites include barbermonger, blade, blood, buck, cockscomb, dandy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dandyess, dandy, dandyling, dandyism, dandydom, dapperling.

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