dandy

• adj.優れた、優れた（口語）；身なりのよい
• n. ダンディ；身なりのよい人
• n.(ダンディな)人名；（英?仏）ダンディ

語源は不明だが、おそらくアンドリューが身なりの良い男性を意味するニックネームに由来する。gussyと比較。

dandy

dandy: [18] The first record of the word dandy comes in Scottish border ballads of the late 18th century, but by the early 19th century it had become a buzz term in fashionable London society. It is generally explained as being an abbreviation of jack-a-dandy ‘affected man’, a word first recorded in the 17th century which apparently incorporates Dandy, a colloquial Scottish abbreviation of the name Andrew. The word’s adjectival use started in the 19th century in close semantic relationship to the noun – ‘affectedly trim or neat’ – but American English has rehabilitated it to ‘excellent’ in the 20th century.
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dandy (n.)

c. 1780, of uncertain origin; it first appeared in a Scottish border ballad:

I've heard my granny crack
O' sixty twa years back
When there were sic a stock of Dandies O

etc. In that region, Dandy is diminutive of Andrew (as it was in Middle English generally). The word was in vogue in London c. 1813-1819. His female counterpart was a dandizette (1821) with French-type ending. The adjective dandy first recorded 1792; very popular c. 1880-1900. Related: Dandified; dandify.

1. There 's a zoo round here？That 's dandy for my kids.

この近くに動物園がありますか？私の子供たちはきっと喜ぶでしょう。

2. Some abnormal fetuses ( such as water head , Dandy - Walker's syndrome etc ) showed significant extension of WPCF.

部分奇形胎児、例えば脳水たまり、典型的な Dandy ?Walker症候群などのWPCFは明らかに幅を広げた。