Someone knows this word, someone does not, and someone may be confused by the suffix "ik." In any case, we will analyze today the meaning of the word "francis". We will understand what it is and how long it has been with us, clarify its synonyms and talk about modern incarnation.
Value
Why are there difficulties? Of course, a dictionary knows words only in their original form, if suffixes are added to an object, then such a word may not be found in the source. But we were lucky, for the noun is well known, and quite a while ago. True, we will talk about synonyms later. In the meantime, the meaning of the word "dandy", or rather, "dandy": "A man who likes to dress up, dandy."
Men, as a rule, do not zealously follow fashion as women do. In general, the ideal of masculinity does not imply a keen attention to clothing. If the reader feels a certain neglect of the dictionary, then let him know: through the language the patriarchal attitudes of society speak to us. And according to the latter, there is a strict canon of how a woman should look, but as a man. Much of this is already in the past, but there are still remnants of it in Russia and England. Of course, these are not the only countries, but we will not list all of them, because this is meaningless.
The suffix “ik” gives the word a dismissive connotation. But here's what is interesting: is it possible to turn to a child in the same way and will it be an insult? Probably not. But why not praise the child using the word "smart"? Since this is just another form of "francis". The meaning of the words is the same.
Origin and synonyms
We promised to talk about history and did not forget our promise. The word came to us from Polish, where it meant "swindler," "assault." But the Poles are not pioneers, they borrowed a word from the Czechs. In the language of the latter, dandy is an abbreviation of the name from Frantisek (Frantisek), which is used as a synonym for the words "cunning" and "rogue".
And now we can talk about those replacements for which we gathered directly:
- dandy;
- dandy;
- Fat
- dude;
- fashionista.
We left behind the list only frankly dismissive definitions. It’s not very customary here for a man to follow fashion. True, the majority does not follow, so everything is in order. This is all we wanted to tell the reader about the meaning of the word “francis”. But there is one thing that we would like to talk about briefly.
Everything new is well forgotten old
There is a word that could be in the list of synonyms, but we decided to give this issue a separate place. Who are metrosexuals? Those who have not delved into it probably think that these are people with specific sexual tastes. But no matter how you say the word "metro", the nature of the definition does not become clearer. Maybe the trains on the subway are to blame for everything? No, hardly. What then? This is an abbreviation of two words - metropolitan and sexual, that is, "metropolitan" and "sexual, sexual." But the term means only what the synonyms of the word “smart” meant and it is itself a man who looks after himself and is ready to spend a lot of time caring for his appearance. A prime example is David Beckham.