Dapper vs Shipshape - What's the difference?

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Dapper is a related term of shipshape.

As adjectives the difference between dapper and shipshape

is that dapper is neat, trim while shipshape is meticulously neat and tidy.

dapper

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Neat, trim.

* 1892 , , The Slave Of The Lamp :

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.

Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.

* 1917 , , The Man With Two Left Feet :

Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.

Derived terms

* Dapper Dan

Anagrams

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shipshape

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

meticulously neat and tidy

* 1937 , , 01:44:00:

-- When are you going out fishing again? -- Oh, in about six weeks, when we're shipshape aloft.

Organized, serviceable, trained and ready for action