Looking at smartly dressed, elegantly combed, with carefully selected fashion accessories young people, you recall handsome goldfinches - dandies. These birds fascinate with bright plumage. By the way, these birds feels better at home in comfortable home conditions than in the wild. Just like dandy guys. These, too, do not go for a walk in the dense forest, but on crowded streets. So to speak, show yourself.
Fifteen names of dandy
The arrogant, and sometimes stupid helipad in the XIV French called the "petimeter." And after them, the Russians also called the young compatriots of noble origin, when they blindly imitated foreign models.
If this subject was not only fatal, but also vulgar, then they called him “dismissive” dismissive.
Lovers of show off, complacent, but empty and empty inside called “whips” (this word was also used as abuse, censure).
Oh, it looks like there are no fewer names than outfits in a carefully selected dandy wardrobe. The meanings of these words are given in the table.
Name | What is the difference |
Dandy | Emphasizes appearance and aesthetic behavior. |
Modnik | In the following fashion (colloquial) |
Fat | An empty man who loves to draw |
Dandy | Over-dressed man |
Dude | Defiant, contrary to generally accepted standards |
Firth | Cheeky type (dismissive) |
Modern | Same as mod |
Show off | Lomaka, poseur, impudent and snob |
Injector | A man whom you don’t feed honey, give me a drink |
Dude | Smart but empty |
Fertik | Diminutive of "Firth" ("smart") |
What kind of bird is this bachelor?
A study of the etymology of the word "dandy" is not yet a completed page. It is believed that it could be formed from close words of different languages, meaning:
- loner
- "alone",
- "only",
- "bachelor",
- "thin".
This word also acts as a zoological term - the name of the bird. And here you can also find parallels. As tirelessly chirping flyers tirelessly take care of themselves incessantly, so they “clean their feathers” and dandies, these amusing individuals of a male person, sprinkling speech with buzzwords.