Dapper

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Adjective 1.3 Quotations 2 Afrikaans 2.1 Adjective 3 Dutch 3.1 Adjective

English

Etymology

From Dutch dapper, brave.

Adjective

dapper

1. neat, trim
2. stylishly dressed, neatly dressed

Quotations

neatly dressed

• 1917: Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert. — P.G.Wodehouse, The Man With Two Left Feet, 1917.

neat, trim

• 1892: This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris. — Henry Seton Merriman, The Slave Of The Lamp, 1892

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Afrikaans

Adjective

dapper (comparative: dapperder, superlative: dappterste)

1. brave, courageous

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Dutch

Adjective

dapper (alternate form: dappere, comparative: dapperder, superlative: dapperst)

1. brave, courageous

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