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Beano vs Dandy - What's the difference?

beano | dandy |

As nouns the difference between beano and dandy

is that beano is a beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party while dandy is a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.

As an adjective dandy is

like a dandy, foppish.

beano

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
  • * 1912 , (Katherine Manfield), "The Woman at the Store", Selected Short Stories :
    • You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano .
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  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 419:
  • *:‘Every year,’ said Lord Galen happily, ‘I have this little beano as a farewell treat before leaving France.’
  • (figuratively) Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy.
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    dandy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Like a dandy, foppish.
  • Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
    • That's all fine and dandy , but how much does it cost?
  • Almost first rate.
    • What a dandy little laptop you have.

    Noun

    (dandies)
  • A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.
  • (British, nautical) A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
  • A dandy roller.

    • Synonyms

    * (man concerned with appearance) dude, fop, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, popinjay, buck

    Derived terms

    * dandify * dandification * dandyish

    See also

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