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Dandy vs Dandiacal - What's the difference?

dandy | dandiacal |

As adjectives the difference between dandy and dandiacal

is that dandy is like a dandy, foppish while dandiacal is dandyish; like a dandy.

As a noun dandy

is a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.

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

    * * ----

    dandiacal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dandyish; like a dandy.
  • * 2010 , Peter Coleman, Quadrant , March 2010, No. 464 (Volume LIV, Number 3), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 87:
    • That open neck that met with Hilton Kramer's bourgeois disapproval, like the Harley Davidson Bob affected, may remind us of that ocker strain which the dandiacal Barry Humphries caught in his comment: "There is no truth in the rumour that Les Patterson has been admitted to a funny farm and has changed his name to Robert Hughes."

    Synonyms

    * dandyish