Natty vs Dapper - What's the difference?
natty | dapper |
(informal) Smart and fashionable.
(Jamaican slang) knotty (e. g. natty dreadlocks)
Neat, trim.
* 1892 , , The Slave Of The Lamp :
Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
* 1917 , , The Man With Two Left Feet :
As adjectives the difference between natty and dapper
is that natty is smart and fashionable while dapper is neat, trim.natty
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(er)dapper
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(en adjective)- 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.
- Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.